GARDENING CORNER.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

GARDENING CORNER.

NOTES FOR OCTOBER. This is the month when practically everything can be 1 sown in the vegetable garden, for the danger of frosts is over and the ground is becoming warm. It is the month, too, however, when weeds will grow very fast, so when the ground is dry it is a good plan to hoe it often and kill the weeds while they are small. You can sow pumpkins, marrows, melons and cucumbers this month, and continue with sowings of turnips, carrots, lettuce, peas, beans, sweet corn, radishes, beet and spinach. The more delicate wax beans may also be sown now. Complete the planting of potatoes that was commenced earlier in the season and put out also tomato, cabbage, cauliflower and kumara plants. In your flower gardens you may continue to sow phlox, balsams, portulaca and zinnias, as well as larkspurs, cosmos, candytuft, lupins, nasturtiums and clarkia. Indeed, more varieties of flower seeds can be sown no. j in the open than at any other time of the year. This month, too, chrysanthemums may be -'■'anted out, and any tall plants that are liable to be caught by the wind should be tied to stakes. And now, just a word about the flowers themselves. Where the plants are blooming the faded flowers should be picked off whenever they appear, for this keeps them blooming for a much longer time, and if the plants are occasionally watered with liquid manure the blooms will be all the finer and you will be the proud owners of lovely gardens. —Hut Gardener.