Next Week’s Work

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 19, 6 May 1908, Page 38

Next Week’s Work

By

VERONICA.

SEEDS TO SOW THIS MONTH. FLOWER. VEGETABLE. Broad Beaus. Diantbus. Carrot, Earliest Forcing Horn. Galllardia Perennial. Cabbage. Lupinus, Arboreus, Snow Queen. Cauliflower. Mignonette. Lettuce (Cabbage). Pyrethrum. Onions, Brown Spanish. Sweet Peas. Radish. Turnips, Early Sorts. BULBOUS ROOTS FOR PLANTING THIS MONTH. Anemones. Narcissus. Potato Onions. Ilyancinths. Ranunculus. Shallots. Iris. Sparaxis. Garlie. ixias. Gladiolus, The Bride

GENERAL GARDEN WORK.

This is a very busy month in the garden. Every vacant piece of land not already dug or trenched should be turned up roughly at once. Some people eager to get an early dish of green peas sow this month, and it is worth trying. We advise sowing the earliest kind, and one which does not grow tall. They should be sown on a drv and sheltered spot. Cabbage, broccoli, savoys, and other crops will require hoeing. Attend to thinning carrots, beet, and turnips, and keep tree from weeds. Kumaras should be dug this month, ami stored in a dry. cool, cellar. Asparagus bedis should be dressed with stable manure to the depth of three or four inches a top dressing of Kainit will be of benefit. Salt is generally recommended, but we prefer the Kainit, as it contains generally about 20 per cent, of potash, ami the cost when labour is considered is not very much greater than the ordinary agricultural salt. Those who grow seakale should fork over beds ami give

a manure dressing. Rhubarb roots roots should be lifted. We have found that lifting and turning them crowns down andl leaving them for six weeks does no harm but rather improves them. They a manure dressing. Rhubarb roots then have a thoroughly good rest. Late crops of bulbs should be planted this month, where frosts are not general, or where time can be given to protect them from frosts. Cinerarias should be planted out. These plants are most effective for bedding, and where conditions an* favourable they should be largely planted. Herbaceous Hardy perennials can be divided and replanted. Dig over landl intended for planting fruit trees, roses, ornamental trees and hedging plants. Fruit trees and orcelm rd s generally will he greatly benefited ay a dressing of basic slag. This fertiliser gives the best results when put on at this season. Five cwt. to tin* acre is a fair dressing. Some orchardists prefer mixing the slag with Kainit —3 cwt. slag and 2 cwt. Kainit.

COMING SHOWS. Notices <»f Forthcoming Shows will be inserted Free.