AN IMPORTANT WORK
With the coming of August, the kitchen garden will have begun to look quite well filled, many of the beds showing orderly tows of fresh young seedlings, and then the potatoes — those put in early — displaying clearly marked xows. Far from work lessening as the various crops appear, however, the tendency is rather for it to increase. Particularly is this true if the season proves a dry one, for then hoeing must be almost continuous, in order to give the surface soil that finely-broken surface which is the best insurance against drought. Even if the reverse be the case, and rain is plentiful, still hoeing is necessary, for weeds grow at an alarming rate, and must at all costs be kept down,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 13
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125AN IMPORTANT WORK Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 13
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