IN THE GARDEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 8

IN THE GARDEN

HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables WORK FOR THE WEEK VEGETABLE GARDEN. Plant more cabbage and cauliflower and sow. more seed for later supplies. In favoured situations a few potatoes may be planted for a second crop. Sow another batch of short carrots for use in winter and spring. Give liquid manure to marrows and pumpkins to increase the size of the fruits. It is advisable to trench a piece of the garden every year. Dig or trench all vacant plots ready for planting. Lift and store the potato crops as they ripen. Do not leave the tubers exposed at night to the attentions of the potato.moth. Earth up the advancing crops of celery and leeks. This is best done while the soil is dry. Keep up a supply of lettuce by planting and sowing at intervals. FLOWER GARDEN. Lachenalias, freesias, iris and grape hyacinths should not be omitted; these make a bright show in spring. Sow more Iceland poppies for the later flowers; prick off the earlier sowings before they become drawn and spindly. Continue the planting of bulbs. Narcissus, anemone and ranunculus should be'planted soon. Cuttings of soft wooded subjects should be inserted for next season's supplies. Good varieties of double petunias are best propagated by cuttings inserted now. Polyanthus, primrose and violas may be divided and planted in their flowering quarters. FRUIT GARDEN. Keep the tomato crop well sprayed as blight is much in evidence during wet weather. Gather the fruits as soon as ithey show colour to avoid cracking with moisture. Destroy all fruit infected with brown rot; badly affected trees should have all the cankered twigs cut out at the winter pruning. Strawberry beds no longer required for use should be grubbed up and the site trenched over deeply. Beds which are to be retained for another season should have all the old leaves and runners cutoff and burned.