You and Your Garden Work You Should Do

Northern Advocate, 14 September 1940, Page 11

You and Your Garden Work You Should Do

The present is a good time for sowing carrots and parsnips.

Plant cabbages and quick maturing cauliflowers. Spray potatoes with Bordeaux Mixture. Get the spray under the leaves as much as possible. Sow tomatoes. Also put out a few plants in a sunny, sheltered position.

Keep the onion bed clean. Watch out for signs of mildew. Spray with lime-sulphur solution. Late-maturing cauliflowers may be sown. These will want a lot of attention during the hot months. Plant a few pumpkins and marrows. Give them a good bed and shelter for a few weeks.

s September is a good month for < making ferneries, and for dividing ? and repotting ferns. < Tall begonias that have been in- ? jured by frost may now be cut back ) to where strong shoots are showing. \ Bouvardias may be cut to about > six inches from the ground. The [ large flowered B. Humboldtii and 18. flavescens are more shrubby types, and should be lightly pruned. Poinsettias,. Luculia, and other frost-tender shrubs that are not spring flowering, may be pruned now. Phlox Drummondii and other summer flowering annuals may be planted in warm, sheltered beds.

Vegetable Garden

Flower Plot

A sowing of Lima beans may be made. Sow celery for planting out in December and January. Grafting of fruit and other trees may be commenced any time now. Tie outdoor vines to wires, and remove surplus buds. Prune and manure lemon trees. Little pruning should be necessary; just enough to allow light to filter through the foliage. Also, don't allow the lower branches to drag too near the soil. Plant chokos towards the end of the month. Lettuce will appreciate a mulch during dry weather.

This is a time of the year when liquid manure and quick-acting fertilisers are most effective. Plants flowering profusely soon use up their food supplies. Pansies, Iceland poppies, anemones, ranunculi, cinerarias, stocks, sweet peas may need feeding. This is quite a good month for the planting of native trees, shrubs and ferns, particularly the popular Ponga ferns. Frost-tender trees, shrubs, climbing plants, rock garden plants, and perennial plants may be planted now. Seed of summer and autumn flowering annuals may be sown now.