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Press, 1 March 1982, Page 10

i Not today, Josephine. I Nor tomorrow, nor the day after, if you're busy. | Watering pot and container plants is yy? / & </7 usually a daily chore especially for plants S-4 k) on sunny patios and terraces. During a ) spell a day missed can mean a treasured Vg Z, specimen lost. Watering tubs by hand is / / not easy: usually there's not enough space I Qty ' / “> for water and repeated hosing packs the \ soil slowing the process even more. Hundreds of Gardenway customers who use 'Moist-sure' drip irrigation system have solved the problems of watering V ■ containers. They have more time to do the z-crv/MifrSr. J JwL interesting things in the garden. 4 ' c i "Moist-sure" is simple, requires . | no trade skills; Phred Digg demonstrates "Moist-sure." t You don't even need to be a home handyman. If you have a knife or a pair of secateurs and a garden tap or a rain barrel your plants can be benefitting in Hhalf an hour. There are no pumps, gauges, filters, timers, switches, valves to buy, read, fix, check or repair. Only a supply pipe and Moistubes to drip-water your plants. ■ The $19.95 kit-set is sufficient to water a typical front or a typical back garden. It's all ready to attach to your tap. Just roll it out, and plug ’in the pre-cut Moistubes where you require them, with the punch provided. After that it's just as Phred Digg shows, simply Mr I. D. Cammock, "betterthan tum ° n V our ta P’ You can turn your tap full any previous method for wasting water as Moist-sure . « vegetables." incorporates a flow control. ■ Hand-watering is eliminated. MMil No more hoses to shift and drag about. No-: BMn| surface puddling or missed corners. And water is BKg placed only in the root zone of your productive ffW plants. None is wasted on empty ground or B| 11 weeds. The system is easily extended to reach I any part of the garden — even hanging baskets. (We recommend Mist Sprinklers for your lawn). » Growth rates are phenomenal. HII " secret " is tbe deep penetration which iencourages roots safely downwards and the steady, reliable availability of water during 3 Peter Collins, "simple and Summer when growth is often drought checked XSE' in muc k h Canterbury. It is no wonder then that growth of trees, shrubs and plants is 2 or 3 times ■T ’ as much as expected. Planting can be undertaken in places where it would otherwise be a sheer I."- waste of money aqd effort, because of low" rainfall. . - . .. ™ You won't be fooled. ' . ' ••> ■ ’'' \ - i A little rain, doesn't fool anybody and if you don't V have 'Moist-sure' yet, you know the hoses will be out again before long. But take advantage of the r respite, buy a 'Moist-sure' kit-set and keep the f . ” hose for washing the car. * y The last word is yours. ■ ,’f x- * Z There's a lot more, to tell but for some'seeing is V' wISp be,ievin g : ’y° u can see'Moist-sure'working at all ■ ' / Gardehway branches and read the rest of the succ ess story there.' You’ll read, too that if 'Moist-sure'fails to do for yqu.everything that we jj Allison Adams, won an award for c | a j m f or bring if. backhand we'll cheerfully herflowergarden. refund the COSt, Without fUSS. ’ ’ ‘ You're certainly verbal on all matters herbal. Mrs Barbara Taylor, 51 Clifton Terrace won the Gardenway "win a herb planter" limerick competition with this entry. I "There was a young witch called Miranda, ■ Whose husband did not understand her, / So she fed him on rue, •' And a chamomile brew, ML I; ‘Yr While Basil climbed up her verandah.” Mr < ' Our congratulations to Mrs Taylor and to the /.WWj) many many sporting competitors who sent in jjjg .. JR entries. We've published about 80 and each will receive a $lO Gardenway gift voucher. si , Published entries are displayed at all 4 ■ 'i branches. -I' And a Gardenway herb "special." < "Parsley, chives and bergamot, ■ ' ' ” ’ Plant them in a tub or nlot Jean Mathieson - M - D: Gardenway Plant tnem in a tuo orpiot, with Barbara Taylor, limerick winner. ’ They re great in salads, soup or tea. - , You pay for two and have the three, .V • That ! s what you'd call a bargain lot!” ; . ■’ way open 7 days Mm | LTB MI yfj i MI.TI Hll fMm JMad TH *