GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER
.(By a Practical Wairarapa Farmer.) Continue to sow peas, beans, scarlet runners and French beansi Transplant celery into trenches, and let the trenches lie east and west, planting the plants nearest to the north side for shade. Sow brocoli, if you can keep it free from blight, the early cape is the best. Lettuce is a good substitute for cabbage planting it in beds 12 inches by the in good rich soil, they will stand cutting,three times, the white kind for summer, and brown for winter. Sow ghirkiu cucumbers for pickling, and white turnip seed. Cobbett’s 00,-day com , can still be planted. Commence to plant the latest potatoes after Christmas day.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 50, 16 December 1867, Page 2
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115GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 50, 16 December 1867, Page 2
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