GARDEN CALENDAR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 1885, 4 November 1904, Page 6

GARDEN CALENDAR.

NOVEMBER

KITCHEN GARDEN. This month attention must be given to the destruction of weeds, for if allowed to run to seed it will be the work of years to eradicate them. Tender plants of every description may be planted out, and for seedlings that have been housed, there is no better time than the evening alter a shower of rain. Sow more broad beans if required. Take off the tops of those in flower, and draw earth to the stems of any recently up. The main crop of potatoes should be planted as early in the month as possible. Spring - sown cabbages should be transplanted for autumn supply, and sowings may be made of early sorts for winter use. Plant out tomatoes, vegetable marrows and pumpkins. Sow peas for successive crops. Cress, lettuce and other

saladings, should bo sown in small quantities as required. Sow savoys for late crop, also broccoli and kale. Plant kidney beans for principal crop, Sow .scarlet runners the first week this month if not done last ; and if sown thin for planting, put them out six inches apart, in rows three feet from each other; but generally they are sown against palings, or almost anywhere for a blind. Ridge cucumbers, vegetable marrows, and pumpkins limy bo sown out of doors. Celery may still lie sown, and the plants raised in September planted out about the end of the month. Keep the hoe going amongst all growing crops, both for thinning out, and stirring the ground deeply for the purpose of giving air to the roots.

Cut, dry and harvest all kinds of of herbs immediately any show signs of blooming, at which time they are ripe for the process. FLOWER GARDEN. L’lants kept in the dwelling-house or in pots may he planted out in the ground by the middle of the niontn; also fuchsias, geraniums, verbenas, petunias, and ohunp and border plants. Dahlias may ho planted, both those from cuttings and those from parting the roots ; also old roots that have not been parted or propagated Stakes should ho driven in before the y are planted, that they limy be tied up at once, to protect them from tho winds. Plant out seedlings at tho end of tho month. Autumn flowering bulbs may he removed, if not already done, and, if required, procured for planting. Chrysanthemums must be prevented from running up tall by stopping all tho shoots as soon as soon as they are two or three inches long. Cuttings of all kinds of biennials, perennials, and other I. mts miiy ho propagated by taking

off the young shoots. All lawns and grass plots should be closely mown and rolled once a week, and all the walks and borders in the garden should be kept in the highest state of neatness. FRUIT GARDEN. Wall-fruit trees of all sorts must be looked over, and all useless shoots removed ; all those that grow straight out from the wall, and such as are in each other’s way. The shoots which are retained should be trained in the right direction; and when any one is too vigorous for the rest of the tree, it is better to cut it away. Thin the fruit as soon as it is large enough. Standard fruit trees should be as well attended to as wall-fruit trees, but as they are not quite so easily got at they are mostly neglected, otherwise there is no operation that benefits the wall-tree that would not equally help the standard, whose fruit would be larger and better flavoured if thinned and attended to. Syringing fruit trees is of the greatest service, not only in dislodging vermin of all kinds, but cleaning and refreshing the trees.