The Garden.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 485, 8 March 1881, Page 2

The Garden.

GARDEN MEMORANDA FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY. (Written expressly for The AJcaroa Mail) FLOWER GARDEN. All dormant bulbs should now be planted : they thrive best in a deep sandy soil, and ground not naturally so ought to be worked very deep, applying at the samo time a good dressing of well decomposed manure ; and on clay add a good deal of sand to the dressing. Attend to the propagation of bedding out stock of all kinds. Gather flower seeds as they ripen, remove decayed flowers, and keep the ground as neat and clean as possible. FRUIT GARDEN. Prepare ground for strawberries by digging and subsoiling to at least two feet in depth, and after a good fall of rain select the best-rooted runners from fruitful plants, and set them in rows two feet apart and about fifteen inches between the plants in the rows. Remove the runners from established beds, and keep all free from weeds; gather and store apples and pears as they ripen ; if they are wanted to keep, avoid bruising them. KITCHEN GARDEN. If the dry weather has prevented the sowing of winter turnips, take advantage now of the fine rain we are having, and BOW turnips, cauliflowers, lettuce, and rad dish. Clear off rubbish an 1 dig up every vacant piece of ground to the action of the weather. Take up potatoes as they ripen, as if left too long in the ground they are apt to make a second growth. Celery will now require constant attention as to watering and landing up. Onions for early drawing may now be sown. Take up onions, and dry well previous to storing.