THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
Now that general planting is limiteci. qne should get busy and elean up ihe garden generally. Plenty of work i? waiting. Weed all paths, dig over all spare ground, rake up_ dead leaves and burn rubbish. Repair all broken fences and keep spades, forks, etc,# well oijeid and cleaned. ,V arious pests fill the garden and it is every gardener's dutv to kill these ont. If everybody work'ed on the game lines gardening would be a grqat deai easier. For cabbage-fly twe Black Leaf 40,. two teaspoonfuls to a gallon, For eaterpiller and all leaf -eating inseets spray with arsenate of lead. Make sowings of all root crops suc'n as carrots, beet, and turnips. Even if a little of each is sown, it is better than nothing. Lceks and .celqry plants ma. still be planted. iVegetablbs are daily rising in prj.ce and are now worth looking after. L not plant filrther if you cannot com .trol the crops now grQwing. Better to make a suecess ef these than attempt too muchw
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 12
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