HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR
FRUIT, FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES
WORK FOR THE WEEK
VEGETABLE GARDEN. Make another sowing of endive tor winter supply. Encourage all the growth possible in the crops of celery by watering with manure water. Cabbage seedlings appearing above ground will need watching every day and prompt measures taken to combat the diamond-back moth. Manure and prepare al! ground required for sowing and planting of autumn and winter crops. Any ground not likely to be required • for this purpose should be sown in green crop for digging under. Keep runner beans well supplied with moisture, manure water being give:i<at least twice a week and the plants well mulched. In making late sowings of peas and dwarf beans the most successful method is to open cut a trench and place in a good thick layer of manure or decayed vegetable matter, covered with just sufficient soil for sowing the seeds. Give regular supplies of water in dry weather; hoe immediately the soil is dry enough. Thin seedling crops as soon as large enough and sow again frfr succession. Plant out cabbage and winter greens in showery weather and make up any blanks in the earlier plantings. Tomatoes are now rapidly developing their fruit. Keep all side laterals removed and the plants well tied up to their supports. Spray until they commence to colour. Keep all recently-planted celery and leeks well supplied with moisture.
In making further plantings of celery soak the trenches the day before planting. After planting shade the plants until established. Keep a close watch upon potato crops and lift as soon as the tubers are ripened.
FLOWER GARDEN.
Dahlias will need constant attention to disbudding and thinning out if good blooms are desired.
Thin out the old flowering growths of rambler roses when the flowers have faded.
Old plants of pinks can be lifted, pulled into pieces and replanted now.
Lift and replant narcissus, tulipsj. hyacinths; crocus, calchicums, fritillarias and freesias.
Freesias may be planted for early flowering. Regulate the side branches of dahlias and tie them securely. If caterpillars are prevalent, spray the plants with arsenate of lead,
one teaspoonful to the gallon of water. Now is a suitable time to trim ail hedges. A mulch of manure applied to the rose beds will encourage the later flowers.
Prepare the site for the winter sweet peas by well trenching and draining; this crop does not like stagnant moisture in winter. ■ Where the soil, is light, give the rhododendrons and azaleas a good mulch; these shrubs will not flower next season if crippled by dry weather.
FRUIT GARDEN. Any branches showing silver blight should be cut out and burned at once; it is much easier to see these now than in the winter. Any patches of woolly aphis should be touched with a brush dipped in benzine or oil.
Cut out the raspberry ard loganberry canes as soon as the fruit has been picked, then give a spraying with Bordeaux. Attend to the summer pruning of fruit trees. Continue budding operations; if the stocks are dry, give a good soaking of water the day before.
Give the late peaches another spray with lime sulphur, one in 120, to control the brown rot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 8
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