GARDEN CALENDAR.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 9, Issue 642, 11 February 1887, Page 8

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.