Your Problems

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)

Your Problems

H.Q.M. (Coromsndel) writes: Could you .please tell i me what It is that is- attacking my carrots? , Would naphthalene town with the seed be of any use, and if so how much should be used? , I think it would be advisable to sow naphthalene a lons the tow the week before you eow the ] carrots. Mark out the idrills, sow the naphthalene and then work it into the soil with the hoe or 1 rake. Let it remain for six or seven days, then sow the carrots. /' ♦ '• ♦ ♦ ' DAPHNE (Sandrlngham) writes: I have a daphne bush about four years old. but thts year the leaves have turned brown and faUen off. Some of the flowers have not come to maturity. It Is In i warm, sunny position. Could you teU roe what is wrong and what treatment -it needs? • » a® 7 ' r J cannot be sure, but it appears as if the trouble is -at the roots. Is the soil wet or cold? There does not- appear to be any sisns of Insect or fungoid pest. In many soils the daphne dies out after a few years owing to a bacterial root disease. There is no cure for this disease. ORCHIDS (Dominion Road) says:- Would tt' be possible to live me some Information hpw to'crow'orchids Of the Lady Slipper variety? The compost required , for Cypripediums is a mixture of peat, sand and broken" rubble. The broken rubble can be such as. bricks broken tp the size of peanuts, and 1s chiefly valuable as a drainage medium. The peat can be coarse fern fibre or roots; or even>olean leaf -mould. In addition to this add a fair-admixture of chopped sphagnum moss. Press the compost firm with the finger when potting. Proa the above you will see that a soil chiefly composed of leaf soli, peat sand and moss is required, a sou that can haveplenty of water during the growing season without any chanos of stagnation. f 411' SOYA (ifiuMtrewft) nys: Would you pleue five ' us some Information regarding soya beans. (1) When to plant; (3) do they require rich soU; (3) are they dwarf or runner; (4) do you eat them as a green bean or a dried bean, and are they worth growing? (1) Same time as dwarf beans; (3) similar soil to dwarf beans, weU drained and rich; (3) they are not climbers, but'most varieties are larger growers than the average dwarf beans and vary from eighteen to thlrty-slx inches. (4) You can use them green, but they are not equal to the ordinary dwarf beans. It Is as dried beans' that they are most valuable. Actually, for the home garden for domestic uses they are not equal to the dwarf bean. Commercially and in manufactures they are most important. It Is the oil extract from them and their value .as cattle food, that makes them so valuable. According to reports an immense number of articles can be produced from the soya bean. ../.♦ ♦ ♦ ♦