KITCHEN GARDEN.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 May 1917, Page 3

KITCHEN GARDEN.

A small sowing of turnips and carrots may be made. Broad beans how in drills about three feet apart and four inches in the rows. Peas, to obtain the earliest crop, sow in rows in a dry soil and warm situation, selecting the> earliest and most approved kind, such as \yilliam Hurst or Gradus. Hoe and stir the soil around brocolli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, prickly spinach, and other growing jicrbps ; earth up any that require it. Hoe and thin crops of carrots turnips, onions, and spinech sown last month, Dig up sweet potatoes, dry, and store in boxes with dry sand. Continue to gather and store in a dry place, free from damp, pumpkins, piemelonp, etc. Potatoes onions, plant in rows of 18ins apart by six. Shallots, plant in rows i 2ins apart by four. -Earth those previously planted as the plants require it. Asparagus, cut down the old stems and fork up the surface of the beds ; then throw some of the soil on each side, and give a good dressing of stable manure to the deprh of two or three inches; mix SBlt or kainit with the manure, afterwards return the soil on the top ; the winter rains will send the manure to the roots. Rhubarb beds should also be dug over and thoroughly manuiedjthe old roots should also be lifted and placed under a tree till required for spring planting. If the beds have been down two years, a new bed should be trenched and manured, so that the young plants may bo planted in the spring ; divide those that have become too large, or put in young roots. Old roots ore "better to lie upon the surface of the ground for a month or two previous to planting.. Plant out strawberries on a well manured plot of gaound, See that the ground has been thoroughly cleaned of sorrel and other weeds. Plant in rows two feet apart and six inches from plant to plant in the row.