KITCHEN GARDEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 10 January 1890, Page 2

KITCHEN GARDEN.

The soil after the recent Tains is in such a favourable condition, that all such operations as planting, pricking out, pnd sowing rotation crops should be pressed forward. A ,good breadth of endive and lettuce sbx^uld^ be sown for antumn use, and timely attention given to recent sowings of of cabbage plants. These should \us thinned out and transplanted, if necessary, a a they are liable to damp off or to become drawn up weak by overcrowding. Larger breadths of turnip* may be sown to suoceed former ones, to meet seasonable demands. To destroy fly, give good dustings of wood ashes and fresh soot combined. The ground occupied by cabbage is always infested by slug-", and a sprinkling of quicklime, salt , or soot will t°nd toleese-i their numbers. For stimulating growth in many advancing crops, as onions and kindred subjects, artificial manures are beneficial if they are applied in a broadcast manner, when rain is coming down. Every effort should be made to clear the ground of weeds by bandweeding or cutting off the tops before the o eed baa r ipened. ____^ mmmmmimmmmmmtmm