The Garden.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 448, 5 November 1880, Page 2

The Garden.

GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR THE

MONTH OF NOVEMBER.

(Written expressly for The Alcaroa Mail.)

KITCHEN GARDEN.

Early sown vegetable crops will now require close attention as to hoeing, landing up, and staking. Finish planting potatoes, and make sowings of peas, broad and French beans, runners, nasturtiums, etc ; sow cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and savoys on rich, well-prepared ground, to induce rapid growth, which is tho best preventative of blight in these crops yet discovered. Every effort must now be made to keep weeds in check by keeping the hoe going during bright sunshine, for if weeds are allowed to choke the young crops, and left to shed their seed, it will take years to eradicate them. FKUIT GARDEN. In dry and exposed gardens all newlyplanted fruit trees will be benefited by a mulching of stable manure being placed over their roots, to extend about three feet from the stems of the trees. Attend to the disbudding of peach and apricot trees, removing a few at a time, so as to prevent a too surlden check to the growth of the trees. Strawberries promise a plentiful crop. Spread some litter or short grase about them to prevont tho fruit being spoiled, and don't begrudge them a fow buckets of water in the cool of the evening. Fine, large strawberries will repay your labor.

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Dahlias may now be planted out with safety. Plant out verbenas, scarbt geraniums, fudiMas, heliotrope, etc ; transplant stocks, asters, marigolds ; thin and plant animal and other flowers; pansics, pinks, and carnations should have the coil frequently stirred about them, and if growth be languid, water with weak liquid lnaiiHre. Keep beds, borders and paths

clear of weeJs,