CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK.

Otago Witness, Issue 1921, 14 September 1888, Page 10

CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK.

Work in this Kitchen Garden. Continue to make periodical sowings of the different culinaiy vegetables of which a successioual supply is required. Spinach should be sown once a fortnight, and peas, beans, and turnips once in three weeks. Sowings of all salads should be made with strict regularity, and proper attention shoald be paid to protecting all kinds of seeds from the ravages of birds and insects. If the crops of onions, le6ks, beet, parsnips, salsafy, scorzonera, aud skirret are not yet sown it should be no longer delayed, aud the main crop of carrots should be sown this month if the ground is good. A sowing of tall kidney beans may now be made in early localities. The early sowing of this useful vegetable not unfrequently gets cut off by late spring frosts ; but when this happens the ground should be left undisturbed, as that part of the plant beneath the surface of the ground generally throws up shoots, from which a crop will be produced nearly as soon as it would have been if the leaders had remained uninjured. In sowing peas it is the most workmanlike method to put the stakes to them afc once. The barren appearance of the ground is thus removed, and no more trampling on it is necessary for a long time, besides which they afford a slight shelter to the young plants ou their first appearance above ground. The transplanting of autumn sown cabbages aud cauliflowers should bis finished, and the spring sown ones encouraged. Parsley should be sown in drills about 12in apart, into which a few beeds should be dropped at intervals of 6in. The object in view is to remove all excepting the best plants in each patch as soon as the curl is distinguishable. As those which are left increase in biz^, every alternate i,l int should bo removed as they are wanted fo'.- u*e, iind tho ground forked between the remaining plants to encourage their growth aud so prevent their ruuniug to *eed. Soot is a -.uUab'" manure for this herb, and is particularly Uoll'ul in preventing or destroying the maggots by which this plant is so liable to be attacked. Fruit Garden. — The late wet gusty weather .vill probably have driven over some of the uewly planted trees, especially any with heads insufficiently reduced in comparisor with the roots; any such should \>n righted at once and tho ground around them loosened up as soon as practicable after the wet, and as experience is so very much more effective- than instruction it will perhaps be supoifl u.us to again advise that all liable to affected in the same manner be secured by btakes. The grafting bhould now be completed a.« soon as coiivouiout, the extension of the time for which must be guided by the exu>iit to wku-h the bcions have boon retarded •iccotding to instructions given in the early season, as it is conducive to success for the •.toeks to be well advanced.

Flower Garden. — As the bedding out season is fast approaching we should like to direct Hie aUeuiion of our readers to the hardening of the young stock of plauts. If young plants which were potted in small pots early in the spring cannot be temporarily planted in frames of soil, it will be an advantngo to give them an occasional watering with liquid manure or guano wati-r, to keep them in a healthy state till the season will admit ot their btiug planted in the open ground. If they ,are permitted to become stuntoti in their growth it is not ea-y to induce many of tho kinds to again, especially if much ''ry wrather occurs at planting out time. In mo.lerattly warm localities chry&anthemums are very ori.amentnl as late autumn flowering plants if planted now against a smith wall. Half-har<iy ani.uals sown in frames, &c, should be pricke.l out at greater distances apart that they may be strengthened a little before they arc removed to the fl< wer beds. The sowing of hardy ant uals should dp immediately attended to if "they are required for early flowering; it is a poo 1 plan to sow a few patches of those kinds which come quickly to matuiity once in three weeks to the end of December, by which a succession of gaiety will be produced throughout the summer and autumn.