BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUBS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 10

BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUBS

HOME GARDENS PREPARING FOR SOWING FENCING AND DIGGING By “Totara” Most home garden club members will be looking forward to sowing parts of their gardens in the August holidays, providing the weather is favourable. August and September will both be busy months for home gardeners. “Totara” Will help you with suggestions for sowing and manure, in notes later on. Here are a few jobs you should be getting on with before very long. A most important point is to your plot fenced, so that no damage will be done by stock. I think it says | in the front of your records books, |

“No fence, no plot.” This is often true, so before planting begins put m a few hours on Saturdays and get a fence up, if your garden is not already fenced.

Within the next week or so, get your gardens dug. If you have lupins or oats growing, remember they will take from four to six weeks to decay properly. If you have heavy soil, the frosts will do the soil a lot of good il it is turned over.

If you have any choice in the matter, try and get garden which is sheltered on the south side, and one which faces the north, so that your plants will get the benefit of the sunlight. A shady place will not grow the best vegetables. Those home gardeners who have light, sandy soils should try to obtain a supply of farmyard manure for digging in. This will provide food for your plants, and will help the soil to hold the moisture better during the drier periods in the summer.