Kitchen Garden.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 12 March 1891, Page 3

Kitchen Garden.

Planting out Cabbages appears to be but a very simple matter, but much depends on the manner}? in which it is done. Sturdy medium sized plants ate the best for tho purpose, and if possible they should be drawn from a damp seed bed. Good cabbages cannot be grown in poor or exhausted ground, although in the latter case good may be done by the use of liquid manure after planting In planting use a dibber and take care that the soil is well rammed round the young plants. As in small gardens space is of course limited, it wil' be found that, when carefully planted and the ground made specially firm, 15in apart each way is sufficient to grow very excellent cabbage of all but the very largest and coarsest varieties, or the rows may be made 2ft apart and a line of some small crops of a quicker growth grown between them, such as those Coleworts which ran be drawn before mid- winter. Lime and soot should be freely used where slugs abound. As soon as the last of the fruit is gathered, any fruit trees that are growing too fast and robustly, and which need a check, may be slightly root-pruned. Dig out a trench at a reasonable distance from the bole, according to the size of the tree, and cut off the ends of a few of the thickest roots, especially the perpendicular ones. Sometimes it is necessary to prune only a porsion of the roots, leaving the rest for another season, As a rule it will be found that when root-pruning is , done effectively the second or third year after panting, tha fruiting vigour induced is sufficient to keep . growth in check. The planting ( season is fast approaching and notes should therefore be'made of nil renewals required, and varieties which _ have been found to succeed under the » same conditions, or in the locality, \ should be selected.