FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR NOVEMBER, 1873.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 105, 15 November 1873, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR NOVEMBER, 1873.

Farm.—Fine clear summer weather, plenty of work to keep down weeds and get general crops of the season finished. Hoe ground well between potato drills, will keep down the weeds, pulverise soil, and enable it to absorb night dew ; stir and loosen the ground during fine dry weather. Sow sorgum in drills. No insect will touch this crop—you can cut it two or three times in the season—valuable feed for horses and pigs. Swede and mangold main crop get in. White Belgian carrots sow on well prepared land, eighteen inches between rows, thin out to four or six inches. Hay cut this mouth is often injured by bad weather.

Kitchen Garden. —The hoe must be kept constantly at work on favorable occasions among all advancing crops; and as spring-sown onions, carrots, turnips, and beet can be handled, thin out, afterwards hoe between the rows ; sow scarlet runners, French beans, lettuce, radish, broccoli, cauliflower, Savoy, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, and spinach ; plant out cabbage and cauliflower; two sowings of peas (wrinkled marrows) ; hoe, mould up, and stake advancing crops ; stake running beans and scarlet runners; sow broad beans; fork the soil between rows of potatoes previous to earthing up, it is better than hoeing, it opens the ground for sun and air to penetrate to the roots and keeps the soil moist and warm ; manure and trench ground for main crops of broccoli and Savoys. Asparagus done bearing allow to grow to strengthen the crowns for next year; rhubarb, pick outer tier first. Fruit Garden. — Disbud wall and espalier fruit trees this and next month, scarcely any pruning will be necessary, particularly to young trees ; over luxuriant shoots should be removed unless required for filling up ; newly planted fruit trees mulch round to keep drought out; water if necessary; gather strawberries in the morning before they get heated with the sun, and always in fine weather. Grape vines, stop the shoots and cut superfluous roots, regulate and thin the bunches. In season—strawberries, cherries, lemons, and oranges. Flower Garden. —Plant out dahlias end of this month; China and German asters, also spring-struck cuttings ; keep reserve of plants in some corner to fill up vacancies in flower garden. Propagate spring flowering plants in the reserve garden till required. Roses should now have plenty of liquid manure and frequent springings to keep down insects ; rhododendrons, azalias, and other choice shrubs, should have liquid manure if weather continues dry. — Chapman's Almanac.