The Farm Garden.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 October 1913, Page 2

The Farm Garden.

By W. H. Taylor in the Journal of Agriculture, Radishes should bo sown in small ([uantity abcn.t every ton days. Turnips shou'd also bo sown in small area. They vie lit for use i'or about eight weeks only dining liot weather. Sow peas fortnightly for succession. Prepare trenches for runner beans in tho same way as for celery, half filling tho trenches with soil and planting the beans on r.hat surface. £The remainder of the soil is to bo returned after the boansare well grown, and the sticks are in place. Huuner beans and Frencli beans may be sown early in October in a place of average conditions a little earlier or a little later according to circumstances. Small Fkuit. Gooseberries.— Where much cutting, out of branches has beeu done there is ceitain to be a lot of young growths push out. These, if "left, create a nuisanco by crowding iho bushes. It is quite easy at this early stng9 to detect these young shoots." and equally ej.sj to rub them oil' with the thumb and finger. Thus much trouble will be saved, and growth will be directed to the propf-r channels. These remarks apply with equal force to red and white currants, and to a much more limited extent to black currants. Raspberries.— Superfluous suckers should be destroyed as soon as they appear. Where the labor is done by hand the most economical method is to dig them out altogether, for if merely cut off. they scon reappear. Cape Gooseberries.—Make new plantations. The way of planting I prefer is three) in a clump in a triangle efcch plant, about 6 in. fivni the other, and clumps 5 ft. apart. The three plants lock togetner and resist wind. I Muloh strawberries with the be.-t material at command—rushes, spent hops, and coarsely cut straw chaff ac all suitnUe, but not green grass. The , last-named in decaying becomes, mil- < dewy, and is likely to taint the fruit. i ToMATOKS. i This popular article of diet in r> ost \ localities is subject to attack by both insect posts and fungus diseases. ' Spraying with the summer formula of the Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of ] lead as for codlin moth will he found effective ajjiiiiist these troubles. In spraying with the Bordeaux mixture special o.ire should betaken to coat the j " undersides of tho leaves well. I