GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Southland Times, Issue 1157, 1 November 1869, Page 2

GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Summer commences with November, and although its general character may incline to warm dry weather, yet the ground is not unfrequently cooled, trees, plants, and seeds greatly refreshed, and rapid growth in each encouraged by occasional copious rains, . which stimulate vegetation in a very remarkable degree. Kitchen Q-akben.— Earth up peas and beans, likewise cabbage ; stake peas, for they bear much better. Peae may be Bown for succession, Plant out vegetable marrows, ridge cucumbers, tomatoes, and capsicums — neither of those vegetables will succeed if exposed to cutting •winds. French beans may now be planted with safety ; the best sorts are the early dunn, the negro, and the early speckled. Scarlet runner* ran be kept dwarf by heading back, and white Dutch runners should now be planted. Full crops of turnips and carrots may now be sown for autumn and winter use. Aberdeen yellow and Swede turnips sown now will come in for winter use, and although considered a field crop, are excellent garden vegetables, and generally do better than either white stone or the other fancy varieti- s usually grown for the table. Sow. red beet, and white, or silver beet as a substitute tor spi a'th. Continue euccessional sowings of radi-h, mustard, cress, lettuce. Plant, any of the sorts of cabbage or cauliflower for autumn use up >n vacant ground, and keep the hoe going and all the crops free from weeds. Sow savoys, drumhead, broccoli, and kail, for winter cropping. Cucumbers and melons in rames should be earthed up, and w°H supplied with water in dry weather. Sow main crop of celery. The early celery sown in the nut-aery bea shoull now be exposed to the open air to harden, but shaded from the mid-day sun, and well supplied wiMi water, and, in about, a w ek >>r ten ii->y-<, should be planted in a nursery be I of light nch soil, about one or two inches apart, and well watered and shaded till they strike root. Kbuit Gabdeit — In the fruit garden continue to remove all useless an 1 misplaced shoots from peach i s, nectarines, &c. Remove suckers from raspberries. gooseberry, and currant bushes, apricots, and fruit trees generally. Should the wja'her prove dry, strawberries will require watering to enable their fruit to set and swell off. Flow kb Qa.udev. — in ibe flower garden all pot plants that have been preserved through the winter may be planted out with safety, as all danger of <ro-t may be considered past. Balsams and other tender annuals may also bo sown, and hardy ones thinned out, as they grow stronger ami flower better for it. Continue to stake and tie everything requiring it, as neaness and cleanliness sliould be the order of the day. Keep the hoe and rake going.