SWEET MIGNONETTE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 207, 17 September 1937, Page 15

SWEET MIGNONETTE

No annual noted for its sweofc fragrance is more popular than mignonette. It is found everywhere, yet a'tliough its requirements are simple, it is often indifferent.y grown owing to its being overcrowded in the bed. As it is known, seed may be sown in succession from August onwards to hav« a good supply of spikes for cutting all through the summer. Soil for it should be rich, light, and always the position selected ' should bo sunny. A comxjost made up of good garden soil with a little leaf-mould and decayed manuro worked in and the bed made quite firm — almost hard — suits mignonette. Seeds cught to be sown very thinly and tliinning be restored to very radically when it is remeinbered that a well-grown plant will occupy a foot, and yield an itnmense number of spikes stronger in every way than the plants congested. One has but to take a lesson from a seed dropped in a border and growing in isolation. When the young plants are making a kea i way a dusting of soot and wood aslios about tlie bed will hclp them and keep a t; Imy tlie lly which in certain seasons attacks young plants. Oue may have (|uit«> dwarf sorts to giants of ncarlv 2 feet.