GARDEN CALENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 3

GARDEN CALENDAR.

Kitchen Garden.—Sea ka'o : cover the strongest roots with boxes or barrels, and place some fermenting stable-dung round each, to start their growth, Peas ami broad beans : put in another sowing for succession. When the ground is dry and friable, plant early potatoes. The hardest frosts occur here in July, and it will bo advisable to defer the sowing of small seeds till the end of the month. When the ground has boon previously dug, any of the cabbage tribe may bo planted. Manure rhubarb, and make fresh plantings. Stir the surface amongst onions or other young crops, to prevent the frost from heaving up the soil. Fruit Garden.—Take advantage of dry weather to transplant fruit trees and bushes, and proceed with the pruning. Th : s operation is frequently overdone by attempting to bring bushes which have been neglected at once into the operator’s favorite shape. It will ho found sate practice to prune moderately, removing suckers from the roots, and leaving the centre of tire hushes rather open. Red and white currants require very e'ose pruning. The black currant requires very little cutting, merely keepring the bushes moderately thin of wood. Prune and tie raspberry canes, leaving but four or live to each stool. Plant strawberries and finish the dressing of old beds, but avoid the barbarous practice of cutting off the leaves. Plant hedgerows : put in thorn quicks six inches apart. Flower Garden.—Sec that the ground in this department is all dug rip roughly to the action of the weather, as a few frosty nights will have a beneficial effect, especially on clay soils and recently broken up ground. Flower roots may now be divided and planted. Bulbs may be sot -where it has been omitted to do so. See that the planting and prruning be attended; to early, and that they have a good dressing of half-de-composed manure. Hardy annuals and perennial flower seeds may now he sown.

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