THE WEEK’S WORK AT A GLANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

THE WEEK’S WORK AT A GLANCE

THE KITCHEN GARDEN The weather is more settled at present and the enthusiastic gardeners will find all the work they require during the month of April. Plant broad beans, winter spinach, parsnips, carrot, beet, cabbage, cauliflower, turnip, lettuce, leek, celery. Continue earthing up celery to keep the stems well blanched, frequently apply liquid manure. All vacant ground should be thoroughly turned over and enriched by manuring. Oats, mustard, and lupins make fine green manure. Plant when possible on the warmest and most sheltered spots in the garden. With the winter months at hand this little tip will add greatly to your success. Plants of cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, lettuce, silver and red beet are obtainable anywhere. See that you have your supply planted for winter and early spring use. Mustard and cress may be sown in beds or boxes. Sow the seed of cress four days before the mustard so as to be able to cut together. May is the month for rhubarb and asparagus planting. Prepare rich ground for the roots. Onion seed should be sown at once. Straw Spanish is among the most popular varieties, loz seed will yield 1,000 plants. Spring onions can be drilled thinly in row's. THE FLOWER GARDEN April is one of the most beautiful months of the year in the flower garden. Great opportunities are offering for ail lovers of flowers. The last of the spring flow'ering bulbs should be planted this month, tulips, anemones, ranunculus, narcissus, hyacinths, etc. Sow in boxes the following seeds: Cineraria, nemesia, stock, antirrhinum, wallflower, viola, iceland poppies, pansy, carnation and larkspurs. Exhibition varieties of carnations are ready for planting. They add grace and charm to the home and thrive w r ell in almost any soil. For edging and sowing in clumps round the herbaceous borders Virginian stock, mignonette, linum, candytuft, linaria, lupins and leptosyne are hard to beat. A sowing of lawn grass may be made now. Be sure you obtain a good fine mixture. The finer the grass the better the results. Do not miss sowing winter flowering sw'eet peas. They are useful for picking and thrive in almost any warm situation in Auckland distict. • Lift all gladioli corraes, lilium bulbs and arum lilies for resetting in June.