GARDEN GUIDE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 9

GARDEN GUIDE

v. » '» ' * h /rv * THE VEGETABLE GARDEN The most important erop for this montli is onions. f)o not wait to buy the plants, but sow a packet of seed thinly ixj drills and transplant whexj large enough eo handle, Brown Spenish is the famous keeping onion, and Straw Spanish is a larger variety but not such.a good keeper. Prepare the bed for transplanting the seedlings in your spare time. Pig in rotted manure and potash, trenohing the ground to a depth of 18 inches, JHarly potatoes are now available and may be spread out to shoot in a sunny sppt. Prepare the ground so that no txm6 may be iost in planting when the seed is sprouted. Sow the seeds of carrots, parsnips, beet, radish, swede and turnips. All these should be sown in drills and thiixned out as they grow. Short horn carrqts are the quickest to mature if on© has no other vax-iety comiug on. The turnip shaped beet is ©asiest cooked aud dqes not require a great depth of goil, Greens for salads should play a mere important part of our diet, Sqw now, lettuce, prickly spinaoh, silver beet, cabbage. and cauliilower. Spring onions can be set from now onwards at intervals of say three weeks, thus having a continupus supply. Alustard and creBs are a delicious dish when served properly, but, alas, many gardeners do not realise what they ar© missing for only one out of 25 grows this crop. Leaks may be moulded up as they grow and celery should be watered with liquid manure, June is the best month to plaut rhubarb roots, Prepare the holes for getting them in. Asparagus roots may be set next month and the beds should be in readiness for their coming. Sow broad beans at once. Plant the seeds three inches apart and 2 feet between the rows.