FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 86, 10 September 1873, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.

Corresponding to Febbuaby in Europe. (From CAapman’s Almanac.) Faux.— During this month expect fine showers which warm the earth ; the weather gets mild, the days lengthen, and vegetation shows life in every direction. This is the best time to put in main crops. Finish sowimr oats and spring wheat if not already done. Choose a fine day for sowing barley. Sow spring vetches, good crop to clear ground ; sow thick. Drilled wheat and beans may be hoed. Land must be got ready for potato crop; plough it up, let it lay two weeks, plough again, roll and harrow, then draw drills two and a half feet apart. Prefer large potatoes cut to small ones; large seed, cut, yields far more weight, per acre. After planting, split the furrows to cover them. Harrow drills about two weeks after planting, so that, harrows do not tear up seed. Finish grass sowing ; if autumn sown has failed, add more seed; bush, harrow, and roll. See May 's “ Guide to Farming ” for cheesemaking. Kitchen Garden. —Two sowings of peas this month, the rows single, from three to five feet apart, medium early and wrinkled marrows ; sow broad Windsor beuns, kidney beans on sheltered ground; sow parsley, early horn carrot, celery, for main crop, onions, parsnips, beet, cabbage, and cauliflower, in beds for transplanting; Snow s wi t r and Grange’s brocoli, for early spring; ea 1, Dutch turnips, spinuch, radishes and small salaJings for succession; prick out. early sown lettuce, and make another sowing. Make fresh beds of thyme, mint, sage, tarragon and pot marjoram ; sow sweet bazil; earth up and stake early peas, cabbage and cauliflower; fork over asparagus beds ; dig and trench vacant ground. Fruit Garden.—Finish planting, stake and mulch round newly planted trees; the pruning and planting-out ought to have been done last month. Prune and lay hedges, plant forest trees for shelter on exposed side of the orchard. The peach trees will now be covered with flourish The fig trees will show their young fruit and leaves, and the vine will burst out at every bud.

Flower Garden.—Sow hardy annuals, cover one eighth of an inch — sweet peas and larger s?eds will require more covering; tender sorts defer sowing till beginning next inonlh, the soil frequently stirred ; examine for slugs evening or early in the morning ; all alterations should now be finished ; camellias and azalias, pick off dead blooms and frequent ly rake the surface. Anemones, ranunculuses, Spanish iris, narcissus and jonquils may be planted to come in succession. Gladiolus plant, herbaceous plants, divide and plant; stocks sow ; lawn grasses sow. See to your bees, repair the boxes, clear every corner of cobwebs, beetles, slugs, &c. See Chapman’s “ Handy Book on th? Honey Bee.”