Kitchen Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 28 February 1890, Page 2

Kitchen Garden.

A thorough weeding of the; garden undertaken now will save much work at a later period of the year. Hoeing raking and band weeding should therefore be persevered with. Ouions should be pulled -when the tops and nec&s begin to phrivel, and should b« allowed to remain on the ! ground for a few dey«, occasionally turning them over in order that they may become thoroughly ripe aud firm. Chooee a bright sunny day on which to store them. Continue to earth up (Celery as required. Many a«*teurs, siyi * Home grower succeed well in growing Celery up to a certain point only to fail conspicuously in blanching it for uses. £ome err in moulding up to quickly, others in being too late in commenc ing. If half grown plants are 'heavily banked up with soil they cannot make headway, they are literally smothered by it in fact, and the writer especially warns amateurs not <O be too hasty in moulding up their rows of plantar When the plants are growing stropgly and are left uncared for they soon commence to open out, the outer leavoß gradu-. luutne a horizontal position, and cannot again ba tot erect without split ing or cr <ckiug many of them. It is a tvisab c, therefore, to commence moulding up the plants when they are a! out 18 inches high and growing strougly. The first proceeding following & good overnight soaking of liquid manure, should be to cleanly pull away all suckers and a mall leaves from the base of tha plant* aftec which tU ftajm fhould

be lightly gathered up together, and secured with matting or else tae person must hold them wtll together while others chop down some of the soil on each aide of the trenoh and carefully distribute about 4 inches of this about the plants. From first to last the aim should be to well surround the stems with fine soil {without any of it reaching the heart, care also being taken not to unduly jam the stems that is to say, atout Jeafitalks, together. Then as the hfcirt advances, or say in the course of aK oufc two weeks, another layer of jwilffau be added, the third and final jn«n.Wing}b«ißg given from, a month %o six weeks before: the Celery is wav l^ ioT . use - 'Witn ties are used for keeping the *alk together these ihiv nld be fixed Bligitlj higher than it ™ intended to. £$&%?, ani cut awV AalW i-6acb .prboesf. If not bo Jwo[2td9*d» tbosefirstuged are especially .liable to. cause bulging and splitting Jt the base, this also often happening v vb«k the italks are unduly compreswd by> joil before ; they. are fully gfbWnV,