GARDENER'S CALENDAR.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 29, 26 November 1845, Page 1

GARDENER'S CALENDAR.

Transplant annuals from beds to flower garden. Contmue to sow n.l kinds of vegetable seeds ; aud plant out cabbages, leeks, tomatas, &c. Melous and cucumbers may now be sown in frames or band glasses: sow in pots or small boxes, and cover the ssed Avith a little fresh water sand. Give moderate supplies of water to each pack of seeds; but this must be sparingly administered, for if too freely indulged in, great danger would be incurred of rotting the seed altogether. When the seeds have germinated, and the young plants are coming up, water may then be more freely given to them. When the plants hay* been up ten or twelve days, they should te carefully thinned, giving a little water before aud after thinning. Tbe seeds sown in November will he of a proper size for final transplanting by the middle of December. Plants now put out under such frames, or upon ridges covered with hand-glasses, will produce their fruit in March • young plants may be brought forward in the seconnary frames, and when to» large to remain uniniurrd in the pots into which they were orHnally potted off, they may be transplanted into small basket?, in which they may remain until t.ie crops be removed from uuder tbe frames hitherto occupied with the ear-ier crops; and when those are cut. the beds may be renewed, fresh mould put in and the plants removed into them, still in the baskets, which may be partially cut away, or may remain, as the roots will find sufficient means of escaping into the fresh mould of the bed. Cucumbers to pickle may be sown in the natural soil or ground where they are. to remain and in favourable sittntions are found to succeed j but for this purpose it will be soon enough towaras the end of this month to sow the seed. Sow peas for succession. Skinless barley may be sown as late a? this month , fell timber. -