Kitchen Garden.

Manawatu Herald, 16 January 1894, Page 3

Kitchen Garden.

The work in this department of tbe garden is rather limited at this period of the year. Some time within the month Cabbage seed should be sown to provide the spring supply. If possible this sowing should be divided into two or more portions. The seed should be sown thinly, or the plants will be 30 close in the saed beds that they draw up and become weakly. Cabbage and Broccoli should be sown in shallow drills, and after sowing, the beds must be kept uniformly moist or the seed will not germinate. In connection with this subject attention may again be drawn to the necessity of frequent hoeing, especi j ally where plants have had to be i heavily watered. Tbe surrounding! soil then becomes hard and baked I unless the precaution is taken to well stir it with the hoe. After the ground has been loosened the plants will be found to start away at once and to afford a marked contrast to those which have had their roots bound up in hard soil. A final sowing of Broad Beans may be made, also the last sowing of Peas. If saladings are required the succeflsional sowings must be continued. Lettuces are best sown in diills and j thinned out to the requisite distance, thus avoiding the risk of transplanting. Vegetable Marrows and Cucumbers should have plenty el water, and if crowdtd a few shoots should be thinned out and the remainder trained and pegged down. Celery will bo the better for thorough and frequent watering The application of liquid manure of a mild nature is a very useful aid to growth. Attend to the earthing up of the earliest crop as soon as it is safe to do so. — Exchange.