Garden Calendar for July.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5316, 2 July 1892, Page 4

Garden Calendar for July.

CONSERVATORY AND FLOWER FRUIT, AND VEGETABLE GAKDENS. [By Adam Forsyth.] This month corresponds with January in the Old Country, and no time should be lost in pushing forward the pruning of apple and pear trees and goosebery and currant bushes. The season is favorable for transplanting of fruit, shade, and shelter trees. In planting fruit trees, in many instances the holes are made too small, so that the roots are cramped at starting. The hole ought to be twice the size actually required so that the roots may be spread out. Many are also planted too deeply. After the tree is planted and the hole filled the collar of the tree should be level with the ground, the same as it was prior to removal. The tree having been secured to a stake a <*ood mulching of rotted manure should be spread all round it, as this will be the means of retaining the moisture and prevent the cracking of the surface by drying winds. In the greenhouse cinerarias, cyclamens, and primulas are now coming into flower. They should not be allowed to get dry at the root, although the water pot should be sparingly used with other tilings, and what little watering is required should be done in the early part of the da}'. Cinerarias and other piants in small pots should be shifted and grown on for succession, and, if convenient, placed in a frame. Being near to the glass, they would do much better, and could more readily be protected from the frost. Through the course of the month regal and zonal pelargoniums should be reI potted and kept near to the glass, in a warm part of the greenhouse. Fuchsias j should be shaken out- and re-potted in as I small pots as will possibly hold the roots. In the flower garden many of the chrysanthemums are backward in making young erowth. These might be taken up and potted and stood in a sheltered warm corner of the garden, where they would soon begin to grow, and other weak growers might be taken up with advantage and treated in the same way, as they would be better protected from snails and other pests. Ranunculi, Anemones, and many other of the hardy spring flowering bulbs should be planted this month, and whether they are planted in rows or in patches round the borders it is necessary that a little sand should be put round their roots. This is a good time for taking up and deviding heibaceous plants in the border such as primulas, polyanthuses, pansies, where they are wanted to fill any vacant space. The work in the kitchen garden will depend a great deal on the weather. Frosty mornings should be taken advantage of to wheel manure on to vacant plots. Grow early peas on a warm part of the garden. In the case of those sown in the autumn and now coming through the ground a sprinkling of soot and wood ashes will be the means of protecting them from slugs and other pests, some people plant their earliest potatoes this month, but little is gained by doing the work thus early. A better plan is to spread the seed potatoes out under shelter, where they will get plenty of light. By this means they will be encouraged to make strong shoots, and if they are planted later on they will get ahead of those planted this month. -Those strawberry beds that have stood one or two years should be manured now when the paths are dry. The simplest plan is to wheel out and spread the manure in the same way that one would do on grass land. If the plants are partly buried, it will not hurt them, as they will soon push through and bear finer fruit. Where it is intended to make a fresh bed, the sooner the plants are in the better, if the ground has been properly prepared as directed in a previous note. Take advantage of the fine weather to complete all digging and manuring, and attend to all odd things, so as to have no hindrances to spriug work when this month is over. Remove all stumps of broccoliand cabbage, and gather up all dead and decaying leaves. If weeds make their appearance among growing crops, run the hoe over the ground, so that the weeds may be cut up and withered. If not already done, no time should be lost in getting ready a heap of compost for use in the spring. This should consist of turf, if possible, from old pasture land and well-rotted stable manure—a layer of each stacked up similar to a potatoe pit, so that the rain would run oft". The compost thus made will be useful for a cucumber bed, the sowing of tender annuals, aud the potting of various soft-wooded

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