FIELD AND GARDEN CALENDAR. SEPTEMBER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume III, Issue 110, 6 September 1854, Page 2

FIELD AND GARDEN CALENDAR. SEPTEMBER.

Field.— Crops for the field should be put down in the course of the current month. Sow early oats, peas, bean*, tares, mangold wurlzel, carrots, and Swedish turnip;. Plant Ihc main crop of potatoes. Preparo ground for maize. Sow grass and clover-

Gttrdrn.— Make new beds of asparagus where they ore required ; sow onions for general crop; continue sowing spinach every three weeks ; may still tow parsnips and carrots for n main crop, but not later than the end of the month ; peas and beans may still bo lown every second week, and earth up nil those llmtmay require it ; spring dress the plantation of artichokes ; sow and transplant lettuces ; plant potatoes for the last main crop ; plant hone radish in a waste corner of the garden ; saw naiturtiums for pickling ;' plant out capticmna and tomatoes ; Jerusalem artichokes should now

he planted n ynrd opnrt j cnrlb up sen kale for blanching— this ou^ht to he town in mndy soil i rub off tlie buds of vines which appear where you do not wish shoots ; destroy insects wherever you tee them ; examine your grafts nnd rub off all the buds and iiickor» below the graft j repair crack • in tbo clay, or renew the balls whero they have dropped off. It is now time to finish planting all sortn of hhrubs, plants, floworroota, Sec. Sow tender and hardy annualj. Sow pumpkins and molons. Plant out celery.