Gardening Notes.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2749, 14 November 1887, Page 2

Gardening Notes.

Vegetable Garden.

This year we have bad very little' spring; summor has imme. diately followed winter I .' Wo have experienced but very little of those annoying late frosts which cut down' everything and are.the terror generally: of every gardener. We have seen no;; frost bitten, sorry-looking. . potato; patohes, and our French beans, vegetal ble marrows, pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, and even melons :■ are looking healthy and growingj.freely outdoors. For cucumbers,'a'warm, partially shaded, damp situation should be selected; the plants can be put out at any time from now, but care must be taken that none, but well hardened plants are put. outside. The latter will apply also to tomatoes, which should be planted in rows three feet apart-and trelhsses placed for their accommodation, or a stake about four feet long can be. put in by eaclj plant, when set out, and only two leaders or branches should be allowed to grow, arid these two to be as near as possible of equal length. We have had quite as large a crop from this system as we have from the more expensive trellis system. Put put at once vegetable marrows and pumpkins. Plant, out broccoli. Sow, for autumn use, Walcheren and * Veitches 1 autumn giant cauliflower. Put out leeks about two and a half feet apart and eighteen inches in the rows. Sow kidney beans, Canadian Wonder is the best dwarf, and the Giant White is the best of the runners. Both Bhould be planted in quantity and sufficiently far apart to'

allow each boan to develop into a good strong healthy plant. Window Garden. Window'boxes should be at onoa filled with .flowering plants. We prefer, when this is done on the planting out.system, to keep the boxes inside, j. in..either dow:for a few daystoenablfiW^ tablished before being exposed to r ' .the •■' .open air, but this is not a matter of" very great importance,, apd -if" the plants used are sturdy and well inured - to light and air, they will do very well, . if carefully attended to with water. . The plants employed need not be large for they will' soon grow away rapidly in fairly rich soil, and with plenty of moisture. A few rather tall Zonal Pelargoniums, single or double flowered or Fuchsias, are about the best for the the back row, though neat plants of show or fancy Pelargoniums succeed ' woll and produce a nice eflect. For the front row use Tropmolums of the Tom Thumb class, Lobelias, Dwarf ' Stocks, or anything of a low growing, tufted nature. At intervals should be placed some trailing subjects to grow over the front of the box, Trailiwr Lobelias (Dramosa), Tropceolum ball, Petunias (single flowered) drooping, habited Fuchsias (such as Mrs Marshall), Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums; of which there are so many lovely ' varieties, and i Creeping Jenny, all these are suitable for -ihis 'purpose." sl At either end of the box may be planted •' a few climbing subjects, of a not too vigorous nature, such as Tropceolum ! Lobbianum, T,' Canadensis, Maur- : andya Barclayana, Convolvulus, major, Lophospermums, or Thuni bergias.. These, ■ trained to strings' i reaching to the top of the window, i afford a pretty effect, and a nicely I fitted hanging basket in the centre• 3 will complete the picture, Other , subjects useful for window boxes, are 1 Balsams,. Mignonette, and, by no x means least, Begonias of the tuberous P class, which are among the finest ■ of* . all plants for this kind of work,- and 3 when the knack of managing them j right has been once learned, will j bloom most profusely throughout thg£ . season. But the best plans r window boxes is to' simply fill ; them . with cocoa-nut fibre, which must be I kept in a damp condition, and just 0 plunge the pots in this material. In . this way the arrangement may be d altered at will, and as often as may Ibe desired, while, if-any plant goes off, or becomes exhausted, or shabby, it oan be replaced in. a moment. Bather [8 more trouble in'watering is necessary, for each plant must'not only receive' e a due supply of water when needed,-

but systematic feeding with liquid manure must be resorted to in order to maintain them, in a healthy and" floriferous condition. Continue to plant out all descriptions of half-hardy and tender plants, and seedlings in favorable weather, and in the absence of rain, dew all such newly planted stufi freely/overhead every, morning, and overling as' well, with water, if fairly mild. This will be much better than flooding them with water at the roots, supposing of course that the soil of the bed is not actually dry, "Wheii bedding out is in progress, ltjji a good plan to'have a thorough tun? out in the greenhouse, removing all worn-out plants that have been doing duty in the spring,, and indeed anything that is not wanted inside, to the open air. Many of these, suoli as Heliotropes, Abutilons, Grevilleas, &c., may be planted out in the borders, and will'generally there soon regain a respectable appearance. Others, Genistas and Duttsias for instance, may bo either plunged or stood on . a hard bottom in a slightly shaded position,, and; 'this will not only benefit the plants themselves' greatly but relieve the probably overtaxed space in the house, for plants cannot be crowded in a house in. summer with the samo impunity as in the winter months. '

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