RURAL KALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER.
The Garden. — Make new beds of asparagus where they are required; sow onions for the general crop; continue sowing spinach every three weeks; may still sow parsnips and carcots for a main crop, but not later than the end of the month ; peas and beans may still be sown every second week, and earth up all those which require it; spring dress the plantation of artichokes; sow and transplant lettuces; plant potatoes for the last or main crop, plant horse-radish in a waste comer of the garden -, sow nasturtious for pickling -, plant out capsicums and tomatoes ; Jerusalem artichokes should now be planted in rows a yard apart; earth up sea kale for blanching—this ought to be grown in sandy soil; rub off the buds of the vines which appear where you do not wish shoots ; destroy insects wherever you see them, examine your grafts and rub off all buds and suckers below the graft; repair cracks in the clay, or renew the balls where they have dropped off. Note always days upon which you sow seeds and perform other operations, watch the result, and you will have a sure guide for future operations. It is now time to finish planting all sorts of shrubs, plants, flower roots, &c. Sow tender and hardy annuals. Sow pumpkins and melons, Plant out celery. Fiklo. —Crops for the field should be also put down in the course of the current month. Sow early oats, peas, beans, taics, mangold wurzle, carrots and Swedish turnips. Plant the main crop of potatoes. Prepare ground for maize, fc'ow grass and clover.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 45, 12 September 1850, Page 2
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267RURAL KALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 45, 12 September 1850, Page 2
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