GARDEN AND FARMINGCALENDAR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 46, 8 February 1873, Page 3

GARDEN AND FARMINGCALENDAR.

{ (rllO 'd iIFA'.D A V D BfiET'X-’H ALMANAC ) j FEBRUARY. | Flowlb Garden.—ln eiiowcry weather con’inug to transplant, annuals, removing thorn if posrihie ■with a ball of soil attached to their roots. Fill up gaps in the border; water newly planted tilings in the evening or early morning in bright weather; remove all decaying leaves ’ and straggling brunches ; keep the borders loose and open with the hoe, where they arc not covered with the plants; take up anemones and ranunculuses that are past flowering ; propagate herbaceous plants I hy cuttings ; hart' wooded plants by layers whore | practicable. JBuci roses ; collect seeds as they j ripen, allowing only pods from the finest blooms | to reach maturity. Eradicate weeds, and attend to walks and edgings. Kitchen and Fkitit Garden. Kurneras should now be moulded up, a, so leeks, celery, and any potatoes that miy still require it. "Plant brocoli for spring crops. Lettuce, onion, cabbage turnip, and early peas should be sown, also cauhflowers. Barn off rubbish, and trench the ground j from which the crops have been gat tiered. Destroy ( weeds before seeding, and keep the soil open and loose on the surface. Gather herbs for drying. Cut and train hedges; support heavy laden fruit trees ; thin out all young shoots crosaiag each Giber ; pinch back strong shoots, itemove straw-

"'Try nmi.i'M atd jtup(-, Ja oui raspberry shoots, ■ ■■.s.-iumio 'points bi dried lasi months,and continue* mi when required. Wiser© fine fruit la n-tjunvii u will be necessary, to thin heavy crops, removing the least shaped. bsKH. If the weather is farourablo small patches of land may bo sown with Capo barley oats, or Italian rye grass, to bo cut for feed, or eaten cif during the winter months, Tho mala '•rnp of potatoes will b« fairly begun upon about no middle ot this month Grass is generally -careo, ami rhu -y stock and horses will requiro ,;rc-n maize or other food to be supplied to them, iic state of tho different drinking places ‘ami, and tho supply of water, '“•mu! be looked to if neglected before. The ni.iw.ng of stones and scoria n r roads, stockyards, ;>nd gtr tew ays ought to bo finished this month, 1 hatch, ui shape of rushes or whatever is suitable and convenient, should bo in readiness to cover the potatoes, which, if intended to be kept, may be put between two rows of p >sts five or six feet apart, H f ree being laced against the rails. Maka iequiru-s, now the grass seed is being dressed, for n hat you will want in tho autumn. Ewes may be put to the ram if early fat lambs for the butcher are wanted.