GARDEN GUIDE
THE VEGETABLE GAM)EN Plants and tubers that may now bi set: — Onion seedlings, cabbage, cauli flower, beet, rhubarb, asparagus, straw berries, artiehokes and shallots. Younjj seedlings should be dusted with tobaccc ' dust to keep down the ravages of the slugs and snails. Tomatoes are a world popular crop and no gardpn, however small, shoulc be without this health-giving vegetable, Sow the seeds now in pans or boxes, covering lightly with sand and soil and if possible, a sheet of glass to protect them from heavy rains. Market Favourite is a splendid cropper foi general nse. Carter 's Sunrise is a small. sweet sort that is very useful for pickling. In frostless districts sow early peas in drills. Potatoes for early cropping can be planted at once. Early Puritan and Early Eose are two good sorts. Gamekeepers and Arran Chief are not quite so early, but more blight resisting. In sunny spots of the garden the following seeds may be set: — Broad beans, earrots, beet, spinach, mustard, cress, parsley, turnips and swedes. All root crops should be planted in ground that has been occupied by cabbage and similar left crops.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 15
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191GARDEN GUIDE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 15
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