GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR AUGUST.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 317, 1 August 1879, Page 2

GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR AUGUST.

WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE AKAROA MAIL

Kitchen Garden.

Those who have had their vacant ground dug up roughly to tbe action of the weather in the early part of winter, will now find it, after a few dry days, in fine condition for cropping, from the ease with which it can be broken down and prepared for the sowing of seeds. Many of the principal crops of vegetables may be sown this month if the weather is favourable, such as onions, leeks, carrot, beet, parsnip, cabbage and cauliflower, Eeas, broad beans, lettuce, radish, spinach erbs, parsley* &c. Plant early potatoes; land up and stake early peas. Onions, carrot, parsnips, beet, and cabbage, intended for seed, should now be set in a warm sheltered place. Plant rhubarb, seakale, and asparagus; also the main crop of eschalots. Keep the ground well stirred between the rows of advancing crops of cabbage, and cauliflower. Fruit Garden. Proceed with transplanting fruit trees, bushes, raspberry canes, and strawberry plants ; remove all suckers from the roots of fruit trees, and proceed with pruning. Some half decomposed manure spread over the roots of newly-planted fruit trees will be beneficial to them. Plant hedge-rows of thorn, sweetbriar, broom._&c. Flour Garden. There are many late flowering bulbs* such as lilies and gladioli, which may still be planted. Devide and replant roots of hard border flowers. Sow annual and perennial flower seeds. Transplant shrubs, and secure by stakes those which may be in danger from wind. Plant edgings of box, thyme, dwarf roses, camomile, rosemary, &c.