Garden Notes for August.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2665, 10 August 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

Garden Notes for August.

Kitchen' Garden'. —This tbo first month of spring is a busy month in tliis department. Jwo or throe Bowings of peas t-hould bo wade at intervals of a week. For this ssasou we should recommend Luxton's Proliiio, McLean's Advancer and Wonderful—all of which ive havo proved to be good sort?. We should advise that thoy be sown in rows four to six foot apart, rather thickly, and about threo inches deep. A few potatoes of tlio very earliest sorts may be tried on the north side of the hedge. Any cabbage plants of suffioient size may be planted out now, and large sowings of the whole (if the tribe should be made in sheltered Kituations; they will in most localities, however, reauire protection from the bird-". Celery may be sown in a frame or under :i hand light, a pinch of good food will be found enough at this season. Leeks and onions should be sown on the ground jnvpiired in the autumn ; sow in drills (ino foot apart and very shallow, m> that UiG seeds will bo nicely covered, n:;d no more ; after covering up, tread the whole of tho bed gently but firmly with the feet, then Kike lightly, and the job is finished. We have tried most of tho new kinds, but have found none equal to (he Old Spanish and James Keeping. A good breadth of parsnips should now to .sown in rich light soil, in drills eighteen inches apart, and the plants thinned out to nix inches. All kinds of salads may be sown in such quantities ni ar« likely to be required.—N.Z. Country Journal.