GARDEN HINTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 860, 2 January 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

GARDEN HINTS

JANUARY— Sow cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, celery, beans, carrot, lettuce, parsnips, peas, potatoes. Sow (for transplanting later) anemones, carnations, sweet peas, iceland poppy, pansy. FEBRUARY— Sow beans, broccoli, carrot, spring onions, seed potatoes, etc. Plant all spring flowering bulbs. Sow Antirrhinums, Canterbury Bells. Cineraria, Ranunculus, Wallflower, etc. MARCH— Take up onions. Plant out cauliflowers and cabbages. Make good sowings of all the leading hardy annuals. Sow the main crops of peas, beans, and onions. APRIL— Thoroughly manure ground. Sow lawn grass seed. Plant spring and summer flowering bulbs if already not done. Make another planting of salad plants. Plant potatoes and tree onions. MAY — Plant all fruit trees such as apples, peaches, and all hedge and ornamental trees. Get ground ready for potato beds. Plant asparagus and rhubarb. JUNE — Plant strawberries and other small fruits on well-manured beds. In warm climates, sow cabbage, cauliflowers, lettuce, onions, etc. JULY— Prune all rose and fruit trees. Make main plantings of potatoes. Transplant onions. Sow in boxes, under glass, phlox, poppies, sweet peas, petunia, dahlia, chrysanthemums, etc. AUGUST — Sow in frame, beginias, petunias, salvias. Continue planting antirrhinum, hollyhocks, stocks, lobelia, cornflower, etc. Sow artichokes, asparagus, broad beans, cabbage, early turnip. SEPTEMBER — Sow aster and zinia seeds. Prepare soil for chrysanthemums, sow delphiniums for autumn. Plant potatoes for main crop and earth up earlier planted rows. OCTOBER Make main sowings of cucumbers, pumpkins, melons. Make further successional sowings of such vegetables as carrots, lettuce, peas, beans, radish, etc. Plant chrysanthemums. NOVEMBER This is the month for thinning, hoeing and watering. Put out asters. Continue to plant Dahlia plants or bulbs. Plant Kumaras. Plant out celery, leeks, broccoli for winter use. DECEMBER — Make small sowings peas, beans, lettuce. Stop and train tomatoes. Give ground good soaking regularly. Dig and store daffodils and spring flowering bulbs.