Veget bles

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 February 1916, Page 2

Veget bles

Carrots.— ii a supply of lender young roolt> are waited tor use during wintei a sowing of a stump-rooted variety must be put in now. Ground just cleared of. potatoes will be iu good conditio,) ior the seed. All that neeu be done is to well work the soil to the depth of about four inches with a fork. A slight dusting ol superphosphates is all tiie manure necessary Sow n shallow drills a loot apart am. n the soil be dry give it a good soaking the evening bef..re the drills aiv drawn out. Keep the bed well stirred with the hoe alter the seedlings show. If the seed be thinly -.sown' little or no thinning w.H' be neo 'ed. Shallots. —These-, although grown in a good number of gardens, must i," ' jssed among the more imco-m I liey are easy to g o\v, ami 'make an excellent substitute for onions. They should now be'ill a < ondiiion to be lilted and dried—iu Ji\: open air if the weather is line anu under cover ii it is wet. The bulbs, when thoroughly dried, can be tied U- ■ to ropes, and hung up m a dry airy shed, oil' they can be spread! thinly in boxes. Some ol the best bulbs should be rosorved for planting next season. FRUIT. Raspberries.—lt is'a great mistake to leave the old canes on raspberries too long after the crop has been gathered. They should be cut clean out, ".nd burned. The young growths for next season's fruiting, if at ail crowded, can be thinned otit. so that the plant may be strengthened. Vl weeds and rubblsli should be removed at the same time. Loganberries. — These, as~is now generally known, are the result of a cross between the ijlaokUerry and rasp berry, both growths and fruitts resembling the latteis, smvo that they are slightly larger , and the colour is more like that of the blackberry, and the flesh is firmer also, with a distinst'y acid taste. This hist makes it ol distinct value for preserving, nlthougn there may lie a difference of opinion where the superiority of the loganberry as n dessert fruit is c;nc rned. The growth is so rampant t'>at severe thinning is necessary, or a perfect thicket of growth would he the result". As in the case of the raspberry, all the old and exhausted wood should be cut away, and the young growths thinned out where crowded. A good soaking of liquid manure will go a long way to improve the canes.