GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR MARCH.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 274, 4 March 1879, Page 3

GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR MARCH.

•written expressly for the akaroa mail.

Kitchen Garden.

The absence of rain is still a great drawback to all operations in this department; still, in hopes that rain will come, seeds mast be sown of lettuce, radish, endive and white stone, turnips, for use m winterandearly springs ■■■.-..■. Autumn sown onions should be sown early in the month, so that they may have a good root hold before the frost sets in. Late sown and weakly onions the first frost and snow that come are thrown on the surface. Broad beans sown now will produce a good crop in November. Sow cabbages, cauliflowers, savoys, &c, for transplanting in spring. Gather and store onions as they ripen. Continue moulding up celery as it advances.

Fruit Garden,

Continue to look over and regulate shoots of vines, apricots, peaches, and other choice fruits. Make new plantations ©£ fjteawbenies, choosing strong well-

rooted runners. The strawberry is a fruit that should be more grown about Akaroa than it is at present. Manure and trench the ground well before planting. Secure good varieties, and give them occasional' waterings when in flower and beginning' to swell, and the reward will an abundant crop of that best of small fruits. Continue to gather and store winter apples and pears as they ripen ;. handle ' them carefully if they are wanted to keep. I . Flower Garden. Plant bulbous and tuberous flower roots that were lifted in the end of summer. Lift and divide polyanthuses, auriculas, ! primroses, and cowslips that are starting j into fresh. growth. Now is a good time to transplant evergreens, as they have yet time to establish their roots before winter, and will start into fresh growth in spring almost without a check. Now that the leaves are falling, beds, borders, and grass lawns will require' constant attention to keep them neat and clean.