Waimarino Spring gardening
Vegetables: sow beet, cabbage, celery, cucumber, courgette, egg plant, leek, lettuce, marrow, silver beet and tomatoes. Spray with copper oxychloride to check fungal , diseases on fruit, vegetables and ornamentals. Lay slug and snail pellets. Plant main crop potatoes and kumara. Fertilise vegetable gardens. Flowers: plant out chrysanthemums. A busy
month for sowing seed. Sow alyssum, asters, dianthus, phlox, sunflower and zinnia. Keep weeds down. Lawns: Topdress lawns with lawn fertiliser and spot- spray any problem weeds. Fruit trees: spray fruit trees to prevent brown rot and black spot invading fruit during early development. Sidedress all fruit trees with fertiliser.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 510, 2 November 1993, Page 3
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102Waimarino Spring gardening Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 510, 2 November 1993, Page 3
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