Kitchen Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 5 February 1891, Page 3

Kitchen Garden.

Th©NssJ)£uary seed-sowing is limited. Sow now a row or two of earl; Peas, and also French Beans, these being the last for this season. Turnips may also be sown, and those previously sown thinued out so as to prevent injury by over crowding. cqw winter Spinach, of which valuable plant several successional sowings may »>e made. Sow in drills on good soil. In heavy soils, burnt gallon refuse with a mixture of soot wi Ibe found useful if dug in before the drills are made. Eemove tJJe and superfluous shojta from Tomatoes and large c'usteis of fruit m.iy be thinned by removing small or ugly shaped fruit, thus allowi>.g »n ice for thtj remaiuder to develop themselves Top runner Beans whore they have attained the height of the stakes, or whatever other support maylhave been given them Currant and Gooseberry bushes, as soon as tlw fruit is gathered, should have some of the young shoots removed from the middle of each, and also from (he sides, so as to keep them in bounds, having regard to their size and position. By some of the pruning being done now, the bushes will benefit by a freer admission pf light, and the winter pruning be lessened in amount.