GARDENER’S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 45, 11 November 1867, Page 2

GARDENER’S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

(By a practical Farmer.) November is a dry month for sowing small seeds or, transplanting tender plants, water must be given freely to obtain success. Plant scarlet ranuers aud'every description of Frenchmans-; sow ail kinds of peas in drills, three inches deep; beet of all kinds sow, the leaves of which being free from ,blight, serves as a substitute for cab-’ bage. ’’'Cucumbers can now be sown in the open air—dig -a’ trench two, feet wide and two deep; keep the soil separate from the surface, fill the trench three parts, full of. dung, then put four inches of good soil, made fine, this will leave the bed six inches below; the level, in watering it will ran to the plants and protect them from the wind, plant two rows of seeds one foot apart, and six inches in the rows-—pumpkins also thrive well by this plan. Sow Tomatoes, celery, leeks, carrots, mangold wurtzel as a substitute for feeds to fatten pigs. Sow Cobbett’s 90-day corn. It is useless to sow any of the cabbage tribe for the .blight is so bad in dry weather, defer it Until March, and also potatoes until after To save sticking peas, hoe them only on one side of the row, and so pull theta over the other with the mould in the direction in which the wind blows, * Any settlers being short of cucumber seed for growing in the open air, can procure the same gratia, at the “ Wairarapa Mercury" office, Greytown.