GARDENERS’ CALENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 541, 30 August 1872, Page 3

GARDENERS’ 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 ; but it is always ad\ isable to defer digging or cropping the ground while it is wet. Late carrots and a small sowing of turnips may be sown on a dry sheltered spot. Sow peas and broad beaus, with spinach between the rows. Sow lettuce, radish, mustard and cress ; also asparagus, tea kale, cabbage of sorts, cauliflower, Brussells sprouts, and rhubarb. Plant potatoes, Jerusalem and globe artichokes, shalots and garlick. Transplant cabbage and cauliflower, lettuce, rhubarb roots, sage, marjorum, and horse radish. Remove all foot-marks with theh'ork immediately any operation is finished. Fecit Garden. —Any transplanting yet remaining should be pushed forward with all possible expedition. The best way of shv’iug 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 all newly-planted trees, and stir the ground with the dung-hawk between the 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 Garden. 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 uf seeds. All hardy annuals and others flower seeds may ho sown now, and caro be taken to arrange them according to their height; the harmony of colors should also be attended to.