The Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 August 1890, Page 3

The Garden.

This is a busy mouth for the garden Sow onions in beds covered witb finely raked soil, or wood ashes. Sorts : Silver skinedare the hardest aud best M* pickling ; Spanish for cooking, and Deptford, the largest. £ow for main erop at the end of the month. Sow thinly and in drills, eight inches apart. The beds should be four feet apart for the convenience of cultivation Cultivation. In about six weeks after sowing, the plants will he of sufficient size to allow the first tinning and small hoeing, by which they are to be set out about two inch- s apart. If this is performed in dry weather it will keep the beds free from weeds for six weeks longer, when thej must be hoed a second time, and thinned to four inches apart; and now, where tbey have failed, the vacancies may be fi led up by transplanting there some ot those thinned out. The best time for doing this is in the evening, and water mu«t be giveu for several successive nights. No plant is more benefitted by liquid.manure being given twice a week. After the lapse of auo the i month they must be thoroughly gone over for the last time, and plants thinned to six inohes asunder. Sow early peas, such as American Wonder, bijou &c Plant broad beans in lines two feet apart. The firat crop should now be up. Make a sowing of early shorthorn carrots, parsnips, cr<-ss, mustard, radish and lettuce, spinach in rows ten inches apart, curled parsley, cabbages, cauliflowers, brocoli, savoys, Brussels Sprou s and curled greens ; transplant autumn sown plant?. j