USEFUL TIPS SENT IN BY GARDEN READERS
Turnips for Slugs The best method I have found for catching slugs is to place slices of turnip. Jin thick, round the young plants you want to protect. The slugs hide underneath, and can be scraped oft into a tin of salt water.
Asparagus Growing Tip A dressing of nitrate (2oz to the square yard) given to asparagus once a week during the cutting season, and well watered in, makes the grass grow very quickly, and every part can be eaten.
Summer Turnips These may be successfully grown if a few seeds are dropped here and there in the rows of dwarf beans. The foliage of the latter shades and promotes quick growth of turnips and prevents attacks from fly pests.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 26
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