GARDEN NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17750, 29 June 1929, Page 22 (Supplement)

GARDEN NOTES.

SEASONABLE WORK. (By “Nikau.”) Vegetables and Fruit. —As for last week: Digging (if soil is dry enough), clearing away rubbish, planting cabbage and cauliflower, sowing peas and broad beans, giving celery and leeks a flna moulding up. Examine fruit and vegetables in store. sprout potatoes in shallow boxes. Plant and spray all kinds of fruit trees. Begin pruning bush fruits such as gooseberry, currant and loganberry. , , . Flowers. —Clean up beds and borders. Dig in compost or stable manure where possible. Make frames and hot-beds. Plant ornamental trees and shrubs, including natives. Make suitable alterations to beds, borders and paths, while plants, including trees, may easily lie transplanted. Plant out primroses and polyanthi, also violas and pansies. _ Continue setting out gladioli and irisis, but do make the main planting of Hie former yet. Loosen soil round bulbs, anemones and bedding plants.