VEGETABLE GROWING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 4

VEGETABLE GROWING

Most gardeners dump all the weeds into a barrow and wheel them into the fowl yard, where a large proportion is wasted. Fowls are choosey and will only eat certain greens and they are very fond of lettuce when they manage to escape from the fowl run. Try piling all the weeds and general rubbish that accumulate in any garden—hedge clippings, cabbage and cauliflower stalks. Lime this heap and occasionally turn it over. In from three to si:, months you will have a compost heap fuil of humus and the bacteria that puts the food value into vegetab' Vegetables grown on land where reel, manure is used and the c are boosted up with superphosj and bone dust can never have 'he ood value of vegetables grow- i. c home conditions where heaps are made regularly and added to the soil to replace the growth taken out of it with vegetable crops. Try it. J.M. Now that- we have a loyal army of growers, there may be many who have not yet experienced the excellent results of "sowing with the moon." There is no doubt that planting when the moon is on the wax, and especially during the 48 hours preceding full moon, is productive of quite the best results. One exception is the potato, for the planting of which 48 hours after full moon is proven to be the best time. Almost every gardner has a compost heap, and the addition of unslaked lime between the layers of garden refuse and earth is valuable, as then the compost, when ready, does away with the need for artificial aids or poisonous sprays. No blight follows its usage. HONOURABLE MENTION.