The Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 15 August 1890, Page 2

The Garden.

Gardeners lvve still to keep at it, at there is rhubarb to sow, asparagus and seakale .Last year we went v»»ry i'ully into the method of treating rhubarb, but for small gardens it is cheapest and quickest to buy a few roots, when they will reap that which they have not sown, but planted. This plant will stand a lot of manuring and watering. It has been suggested to cover the roots, on the nrface, with light dry sand, letting the leaves fo-oe their way through it, and tha atenos will be b'eaohed and become more tender and sweeter. Asparagus. Th» beds should be four and a ha ] f feet wide. The whole should be trenched two feet to two feet and a half deep, and thoroughly well manured, as the work goes on with rich, thoroughly deoayed manure. When all is tr nehed and manured in this wav give a eond surface-dressing of salt which will wash in with the rains. Previously to marking out the beds, the who 1 !* should huve another thorough good di urging over, making the surface neat and. even as the worlr go°s on. The mod 9 of plmt* in" is to form drills, or narrow trenches, five or six inches deep and one frnt, apart, cut out with the spade, the line side of f-ach dril being made perpendicular ; and ngs.in-t this th« plants a'-e to be placed, with their crowns two inches below the sui-face. and twelve inches asu ider Seakale should he grown in an open pos"tion. If plan's are used, three plants shouM be placed trianularlv two feet distant from one another. Should the weather be dry watering wll be required. The plants should be fit for forcing the fo lowing reason. Make first sowings on a slight lnt-bnl of cucumbers, and melons, ce'ery, capsicuims, and tomafos.