TWELVE FERTILISER HINTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 14

TWELVE FERTILISER HINTS

— — — ' f (1) Pon't adopt the fertiliser liabit • because your next door neighbours have acqxiired it. Many gardens would indeed give better returns without it at times. (2) Don't attempt to nse fextilisers until you have learned something respectiug their correct application. Many gardeners have been ruined by overmdulgent amateurs. (3) Don't adopt them unless you havegood reason to believe that your soil is poor and impoverished. (4) Don't bo wrongly advised respecting the choice best suited to your plants and soil. (o) Don't imagine for one moment that fertilisers will take the place of proper digging for soil proparation, because they jvon't. (6) Don't apply them to weak and siclcly plants or to young seedlings. (7) Don't use them in excess of the quantities advised on packages. (5) Don't apply them to newly potted plants., or to seedlings or cuttings in their earlier stages of growth. (9) Don't adminster them to your soil in dry weather, unless you give it a thorQUgh safcurafion both before and after application. (10)' Don't sprinkle the fertilisers over the stems of foliage of your plants. Scatter them around the l'ceding area and lightly rake in. (11) Pon't storo them in daxnp or badly-ven til ated places. A dry, airy place is cssential. (12) Don't buy them in smalt quantities ; they become expensive. Club together with your neighbours ; order bag lots and share them.