GARDENERS' CALENDAR.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 85, 21 October 1843, Page 338

GARDENERS' CALENDAR.

November. — Melons and cucumbers may now be sown in frames or hand glasses ; sow m pots or 'small boxes, and cover the seed with a little freshwater sand ; give moderate supplies of water to each pack of seeds, but this must be rather sparingly administered, for if too freely indulged in, great danger would be incurred of rotting the seeds altogether. When the seeds have germinated, and the young plants are out of the ground, water may be more freely given to them. When the plants have been up ten or twelve days, they should be carefully thinned, giving a little water before and after thinning : the seeds sown in November will be of a proper size for final transplanting by the middle of December. Plants now put out under such frames, or upon ridges covered with hand glasses, will produce their fruit in March ; young plants may be brought forward in the secondary frames, and when too. large to remain uninjured in the pots into which they were originally potted off, they may be transplanted into small baskets, in which they may remain until the crops be removed from under the frames hitherto occupied with the earliest crops ; and when those are cut, the beds may be renewed, fresh mould put in, and the plants removed into them still in the baskets which may be partiattj cut away or may remain, as the roots will find sufficient means of escaping into the fresh mould of the bed. Cucumbers to pickle may be sown in the natural soil, in ground where they are to remain, and where in favourable situations they are found to succeed ; but for this purpose it will be soon enough towards the end of this month to sow the seed. Sow peas for succession. — New Zealand Gazette.