GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR SEPTEMBER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 222, 3 September 1878, Page 2

GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR SEPTEMBER.

written expressly for the akaroa mail. Kitchen Garden. When the weather is favorable sow onions, leeks, carrots, parsnips, red beet, spinach, parsley, lettuce, radish, mustard, cress. Sowings of peas, and broad beans to be made as former sowings get about two inches above the ground. This will ensure a good succession of peas for the table. Plant varieties of cabbage and cauliflower ; also sow seeds of the same. A small sowing of white stone turnips may be made now, and another towards the end of the month, as early sowings are apt to run to seed. Get in all the first and second early potatoes this month. Those who have a hot bed can sow melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, &c, &c. Fruit Garden. All transplanting of fruit and forest trees should be completed as soon as possible, as the dry parching winds we may soon expect are unfavorable to the reestablishment of lately removed trees and bushes. Finish pruning, and now that the fruit buds of peaches show plainly, don't be afraid to thin them—one good peach is better than six small ones. Prune apples so as no branch touches or crosses another; keep the centre open to admit sun and air. Gooseberry bushes want the same treatment, as much for the comfort of the hands in gathering as for the admission of sun and air. Flower Garden. It will be found that the severe winter has killed many of the bedding-out favorites, such as geraniums, fuchsias, petunias, verbenas, &c. No time should be lost by those having bottom heat at command to strike cuttings; young shoots from the stock plants will root freely at present. Plant out hollyhocks, pinks, carnations, and many other hardy herbaceous flowering plants. Sow sweet peas, mignonette, and other hardy and half-hardy annual, biennial, and perennial flower seeds. All beds or borders should now be trimmed and dug ready to receive the different plants and seeds for summer bloom. Grass lawns, walks, and verges should be now be attended to—well done at present they will be more easily kept all the summer.