THE HOME GARDEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE HOME GARDEN

PROGRAMME OF WORK

THE FLOWER GARDEN Splendid warm rains have thoroughly soaked the soil and greatly benefited the garden and ornamental grounds. Continue the planting of all varieties of chrysanthemums, according to previous directions. Prepare the plants and reserve spaces for planting dahlias during November and December. Bed out extensively phlox Drummondii, French mari- " golds and zinnias. Plant scarlet salvias, asters, gaillardias, verbenas, Canterbury bells and numerous other varieties. Celosias and portulacas should be planted about the middle of November. Zinnias may be planted at intervals up to the middle of December. Sow in the open ground asters, balsams, ornamental grasses, godetia, clarkia, and a few other hardy annuals that are better sown where they are to flower. Now is a good,time to plant bougalnvilleas, passifloras, maurandyas and other evergreen climbers that are transplanted from pots. Fibrous-rooted begonias, belonging to the semperfiorens* section for bedding and borders, should be planted now. frow is the best time to make new plantations of violets. Select single crowns and plant in well-enriched soil free from weeds. Spray rosee for aphis. Use Gishurst's compound in hot water. Lachenalia* and other bulbs that are dormant, including iris tinigtana, may be lifted and stored.

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN Alter the recent heavy rains all crops should be carefully looked over, and any crops that have become loosened and washed out should be straightened up or replaced by transplanting. As soon as the soil is again dry enough to work, every portion oi the ground between the rows of crops should be deeply hoed or forked over. The planting out of tomatoes for the main crops need no longer be delayed. The main thing is to secure plants that have been well hardened of! before planting. Rock and water-melons and other trailing plants may now be sown in ground that has been previously prepared. Earlier-sown crops that have been raised under cover should be thinned as soon as sufficiently advanced, leaving about three of the strongest plants to grow upon each plot. Scarlet and other runner beans are now growing rapidly, and should be staked or provided with other means of supports. Keep potatoes well sprayed, as It is usually when warm, humid conditions prevail that disease .attacks the plants. Continue to sow peas and dwarf beans at reasonable intervals, to maintain a succession of crops. Weed and thin seedling crops as soon as they have made three or four of their rough leaves, the distance apart being regulated by the variety and the sise the plants attain. In preparing ground for summer cropping, the more deeply the ground is worked and manured the better the crops Mil succeed.