GARDENER'S CALENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 332, 4 September 1868, Page 3

GARDENER'S CALENDAR.

SEPTEMBER. Kitchen Garden.—Any of the main crops of vegetables yet remaining unsown should be no longer delayed if the ground be dry enough for working lait it is advisable to defer digging or cropping the ground whilst it is wet. Late carrots and a small sowing of turnips may be sown on a dry, sheltered spot. Peas and Broad Beans with Spinach between the rows. Sow Lettuce, Radish, Mustard and Cress ; also Asparagus, Sea Kale, Cabbage of sorts, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, and Rhubarb. Plant Potatoes, Jerusalem and Globe Articthkes, S'nalots, and Garlic. Transplant Cabbage and Cauliflower, Lettuce, Rhubarb roots, Sage, Marjoram, and Horse Raddish. Remove all footmarks with the fork immediately an operation is finished. Fruit garden.—Any transplanting yet remaining should be pushed forward with all possible expiditiou. The best way of securing young fruit trees from being injured by wind is to cut them well back, to induce a bushy habit of growth, so desirable in this country. Place a good mulching of manure over the roots of all newly-planted-trees, and stir the ground with tkedung-hawk between rows of trees and Strawberry plants, as the looser the surface is kept for either trees or vegetables the better they will thrive. Finish grafting early in the month. Flower garcex.—lf the ground has been dug up early in the season to the action of the weather, it will now be-in fine condition for the planting of flower roots and the sowing of seeds. All hardy annuals and other flower seeds may be sown now, and care should be taken to arrange them according tr their height; the harmony of colors should also lie attended to.