The Farm Garden.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 November 1913, Page 2

The Farm Garden.

Radish seed should be rolled in red lead to protect them from the birds, which are very partial to them. Radishes should be sown twice a month.

Seeds of broccoli and Brussels sprouts should be up before this. If not sown, get the seed in at once. Both require a long period of growth to prove satisfactory.

Savoy seed may be sown now

A late>summer crop of cabbages and cauliflowers may be secured by sowing seed at once. Cauliflowers will require well-manured soil at the time of year when their growth will be made. Growth should be rapid, or stunted plants and small heads will result, '%he variety used must be an early one of tbe Early London type. Itmay be remarked that, if a giant kind has been already sown as advised there will be no use for the .sowing now mentioned, as an early sort sown now will come iv at the same time as the same time as the giant kind sown earlier—viz., about Easter'time.

Peas should be sown fortnightly. French beans are now to be regularly sown. If properly gathered—that is, none being allowed to get old—each crop should last from four to five ceeks. Therefore, if sufficient be put in each time, a sowing once a month will suffice.

Runner beans should be in by now. If not, plant them at once. Plant in rich soil in alternate row rs, so that the seeds are about 6 in. apart.

Vegetable marrows, pumpkins, cucumbers, and various kinds of melon may be sown in /the open ground at once in northern districts'; early in November in other parts.. Though these plants do not require a lot of rich manure, moisture holding humus is a necessity. Where requirements are smail they do very well indeed on heaps of garden rubbish and manure heaps, thus converting an otherwise unsightly heap into a thing of some beauty. A few spits of soil should be thrown on the heap to leceive the seed. It has been noticed that though these plants luxuriate on a heap of stable manure, the roots do not penetrate far, merely running over tho surface in the rain^ washen and aerated portion.

Lettuce.—Sow in lines, and thin the plants.