ATTENTION to strawberries

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 31

ATTENTION to strawberries

be fruit trees finished, the straw.,rry bed should next come in for on ' should be cleaned of th«i an d the oldest and brownest of Th ° w Jf r * eaves cut off and burned, ihnl.® Brount l between the rows lons' ' be forked lightly or hoed to laver" t o ®" 80 * 1 - This done, a Bhrmi... 800<i ’ long, strawy manure This a be p l acef l round the plants, tot n ? anure has a twofold purpose: on y ’"'ill it provide valuable nourbut by the time the fruits ’ be straw will have been washed an< J w ill make a useful bedding » e e J the berries off the soil.

A good dressing to apply to plants that cropped heavily the previous season, or to rather worn-out plants, is 21b of superphosphate and of sulphate of ammonia to every ten square yards of bed. Spread between the row's and forked lightly in, it will prove an excellent stimulant. Superphosphate is *an artificial manure that may safely be applied to most fruits in early spring, particularly to the heavy chopping trees and bushes. The usual dressing is about a quarter of a pound to each mediumsized bush or tree and half that amount for smaller ones. It should be spread on the soil and forked in.