AUGUST TROUBLES
Everything is growing apace this month, especially the weeds, and it is difficult to know where to start. Every shower, no matter how small, seems to bring along its quota of pests, and those nasty little “slaters” and snails are swarming everywhere. There will be little garden left if they are not destroyed, so get rid of them somehow. If you go out with a lantern every night and collect them as they come out to make their nocturnal banquet from your young plants, that will do something toward their annihilation.
In dry weather a good dusting of lime round the plants will do a lot of damage to the young snails, but the treatment is no good when it Is raining About the best thing to do, apart from catching and treading on the pests, is to spray any of the plants to which they seem particularly attached with a solution of arsenate of lead in the proportion of a-quarter of a lb. of arsenate of lead to eight gallons of water. Since things grow so quickly this month, it is essential to keep an alert eye on the weeds. Once you let them alone for a few days they will be sending their seeds broadcast. Take the hoe, get to work and keep at it. Gardening is no job for a lazy person—is it?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 28
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228AUGUST TROUBLES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 28
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