GARDEN CALENDAR.
February. \ Kitchen Garden. — Sow cress, cabbage savoy, cauliflower, endive, lettuce, mustard onion, radish, and turnip. Plant cabbage cauliflower, leeks, and strawberry plants, Sow cabbage and cauliflower for early spring use, keeping the cauliflower protected during frosty weather. Sow white stone, orange jelly, or golden ball turnip for winter use. Plant leeks in trenches and earth up as they grow, and do the same with celery, care to be taken not to cover the hearts. Fow onions for early spring use ; prepare a piece of ground by manuring and trenching for a main crop of onions to be sown next month. All onions that have become yellow in the leaves should be lifted and dried. Take up early potatoes as they ripen — if you can get them ripe, which I scarcely think anyone will - be ;ible to do in this district, owing to the heat j and heavy rains following after, which have j caused almost all early potatoes to start a j second growth, thereby destroying the whole crop, Flower Garden. — Sow perennial flowei seeds, such as wallflower, Canterbury bells' Brompton stock, antirrhinums.sweet william. &c. Bud roses ; insert cuttings of roses, putting three- parts of the cutting into the earth. Fruit. — Prepare ground if not in crop for new plantations of fruit trees by manuring and trenching, leaving the surface rough. This is the best time for planting out strawberry beds. The ground should be trenched and well manured.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ME18870211.2.78
Bibliographic details
Mataura Ensign, Volume 9, Issue 642, 11 February 1887, Page 8
Word Count
241GARDEN CALENDAR. Mataura Ensign, Volume 9, Issue 642, 11 February 1887, Page 8
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.