REPLENISHING MANURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 30

REPLENISHING MANURE

Work To Do Go round the garden and remove all spent flowering annuals, shorten back any perennials which have gone out of flower and be particularly careful to see that all spent flowers are removed. But whatever you do, don’t cut them back, or you will have them breaking into growth, which will be only wasted, as it cannot possibly ripen before the winter. All vacant land must be carefully dug and manured. If it is a large bed or strip, a good trenching and lining prior to the manure being applied will assist very much in building up its fertility. Green Manure Where manure is scarce and the amount of ground cultivated fairly large, green manure is excellent. This can be applied every second year, or every 18 months, one manuring being in the summer and the other in the winter. After all the summer annuals are finished and the perennials are cut down remove the latter to a spare bed till spring. In the meantime the bed can be dug and sown with lupins. These may be sown as thickly as you like, broadcast, and when about 18 inches high dug in and allowed to rot. The ground will be ready to plant in about six to eight weeks after they are dug in.