IN THE GARDEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 9

IN THE GARDEN

HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR

Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables WORK FOR THE WEEK VEGETABLE GARDEN. Dig-in green manuring crops in time to allow for decomposition before crops are planted. Choose fine days for breaking up ground which has been well dug for the winter. Make a sowing of celery seed under glass or in frames. Sow asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, parsnips, peas, beet and lettuce. Plant out cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce from earlier sowings. Earth-up the early potatoes and peas that are showing through the ground. I Some protection for the peas will be needed to keep off the birds. Use strings of black cotton across the rows. FLOWER GARDEN. Renovate patchy lawns by scratching over the bad spots and sowing more seed. Anemones and ranunculus should have (a topdressing of old, welldecayed manure. Dahlias are easily raised from seed sown now; also insert cuttings as soon as they available. Insert cuttings or rooted suckers of border chrysanthemums. Many of the late summer-flowering shrubs can be pruned now. FRUIT GARDEN. Keep the strawberry bed free from weeds and give a topdressing of fertiliser at the end of the month. Apply the spray to peach trees to .prevent leaf curl as soon as bud movement shows. Fruit trees which were poor in growth last season should have a good application of fertiliser now. Graft any fruit trees required when the sap is rising.