THE HOME GARDEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE HOME GARDEN

THE FLOWER GARDEN Remove spring flowering annuals from bed* that have finished their display. Plant out summer and autumn flowering subjects to take their place. Moit tender subject* can be planted out now. Attend to the disbudding of roses if fine blooms are required. Spray for green fly with nicotine sulphate. Plant out chrysanthemums and dahlias from cuttings. Creepers and climbers should be kept tied into place before they become tangled. Rhododendrons and axaleas will benefit by a mulching of leaf mould, peat, or lawn cuttings. Glasshouses will need shading and p«enty of ventilation. Pot on cyclamen, begonias and gloxinias. Put in cuttings of winter flowering begonias Make a sowing of schizanthus to flower in autumn. A sowing of primula sinensis and stellata can be made now for early winter flowering. # Seeds of most hardy perennials can be (own now in a cool position. Stake and tie neatly plants in perennial borders before they become too heavy.

PROGRAMME OF WORK

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN Examine all seed beds, and if there are any failures sow again at once. Sow onion*, mustard and cress and lettuce for summer salads. Sow runner, French and butter beans for succession. Plant out tomatoes, cucumber, melon and pumpkin. Plant out later crops of potatoes and earth up earlier crops. Plant out kumaras on well-worked ground with a solid base. Pinch tops out of early peas in flowers; the pods will then fill up much more quickly. Sow spinach and lettuce between rows of peas or celery. Keep the hoe going among growing crops Spray apple trees, when two-thirds of the blossom has fallen, with arsenate of lead for codlin moth. Peach and nectarine trees should be sprayed with lime sulphur, half a pint to four gallons. Celery fly will be active. Dust young plants with soot and lime, to prevent the laying of eggs on the leaves. Spray young cabbage and cauliflower for diamondback moth.