GARDENER’S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 46, 18 November 1867, Page 2

GARDENER’S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

(By a practical Parmer.)

November is a dry month for sowing small seeds or transplanting tender plants, water must be given freely to obtain success. Plant scarlet runners and every description of French beans ; sow all 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 cabbage, 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 fourinches of good soil, made fine, this will leave the bed six inches below the level, in watering it will run to the plants and protect, them from thp wind, plant two rows of seeds one foot apart,, and' sis inches in' the rows—puinpkins also thrive well by this plan; Sow Tomatoes, celery, leeks, carrots, mangold wurteel as a sub-stitute-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.sd’bad in dryweather, defer it until March, and also potatoes until after Christmas: To save sticking peas, hoe them only on one side of the row, and so pull ■them over the other with the mould in the direction in which the wind blows, ~