Garden Notes BUSY MONTH AHEAD

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 4

Garden Notes BUSY MONTH AHEAD

Gardeners Have Much To Do In September SOWING AND PLANTING GUIDE (By "The Hoe”) Gardeners who get results take off their coats and really get busy during September, for there’s much to do and Nature won’t wait for the sluggut'd. In the vegetable garden, specially, there’s moye thflfl enough to occupy one’s attention at weekends.’ Here are some of. the tasks tliftt. demand immediate consideration s£-, Vegetables to Sow; Cabbage, Cflillp’ flowey, leeks, parsnips, spinach ■ and turnips can be sown in the open. Lettuce and radishes can also be sown now, but don't make the mistake of making one I big sowing. These vegetables come th maturity quickly—and go to peed all too soon. Plan to have small supplies maturing all through the summer by sowing, only a pinch of seed at fortnightly intervals. Turnips and spinach should alfib be sown on the "little and often” principle. If you have a glass frame, you can also sow your tomatoes, cape gooseberries, celery and cucumbers for planting out later in the season. ’ ■’■ ’ . . All your vegetables will be requiring ample supplies of quickly-available food as they begin to develop. Organic manures, in particular, are essential to healthy vegetable development, and those who do pot have access to farmyard manure should compost every scrap of kitchen and vegetable waste. Always mix a little blood and bone manure with yonr compost to give it the necessary ’body to sustain plant life throughout the season. And don't forget to save your wood ashes, which are rich in potash, for potash has remarkable health-giving ■ properties for the plant kingdom. , Vegetables to Plant: Now is the time to plant out asparagus and onions in soil that has been carefully prepared fop them. In regard to onions, it is well to remember that you sow now for spring onions, but you plant earlier sown plants now for the development of the big bulhs in autumn. In planting, cover only the roots. If you bury the thickened end.nt the stem, bulbs will not develop satisfactorily.' ' Fruit Trees: It will soon.be too late to plant fruit trees, and any. purchases you contemplate should be put into the sou , at the earliest opportunity, . ■ . Flower Garden: All hardy annuals can, now be planted, and this js the.Jast month in which you can safely plant herbaceous perennials. So speed-up your purchases of border plants and plant them out. , Gladioli can now be planted tn most districts. Make additional plantings at fortnightly intervals. Chrysanthemum cuttings should be “taken" mow and new plants ordered for planting in October. Flowering shrubs also need immediate attention, Many of the spring-lowering types are already showing buds or fioweis, but some of the later ffpAV.erilig kinds can St Commeiice your battle with the without delay, as a l £re « ue »SM e ;’¥n the will save you much work later, in tne season. At all eosfs; keep the -weeds from setting seed for, as the old -iidn ß e ( hns it, “One year’s-seeding-seven years weeding.”