GARDENING CALENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 455, 6 January 1871, Page 3

GARDENING CALENDAR.

January. Kitchen Garden.—The principal crops of the cabbage tribe for Winter and Spring use, should be planted this month. Plant early cabbage about twenty one inches apart each way ; and late sorts, including cauliflower and brocoii, two feet ajKirt. Transplant leeks ami celery ; sow spinach. During the first week, put in the last sowing of peas, choosing an early sort ; also make the last sowing of French beans, and the principal sowing of turnips. Sow turnip-rooted radish and lettuce, on moist, rich soil. Attend to the thinning of late-sown onions and other root crops. Take up and dry in the shade ripe onions, taking care not to bruise them. Stir the ground frequently between the rows of all growing crops, to admit of air and moisture.

Fruit Garden. —Plum, cherry, peach, nee. tarine and apricot trees may now be budded. Remove suckers from grafts, and secure the young shoots from the effects of win i.

Flower Gsrden.—lncrease pinks and carnations, either by pipings or layers. Cut down geraniums as soon as they are done flowering, and set the cuttings in a shaded spot, where they will soon take root. Thin mignonette and other choice annuals. Keep every part of the garde i free from weeds. Hoe, if possible, during bright sunshine; and this, if properly done with the Dutch hoe, will both kill weeds and destroy slugs —which latter are very destructive at thi 3 season, particularly on aamp ground.