HEDGE PLANTING
ATTEND TO IT NOW. Should any new hedges require planting, now is the time to attend to the work. They are essential to all gardens, but liscrimination should be exorcised in ■egard to the variety that is planted. Coarse-growing cattle-proof hedges are not required in the majority of most -mall gardens. The position for cross hedges should be well chosen, so that they fulfil their requirements without taking up ground that would be useful for other purnoses, for outside of the protection afforded they are generally useless, and are robbers of the soil. Many, when planting, never consider it necessary to prepare the soil,
but a hedge which becomes useful in a short time is double the value of one which is several years before being of any use. Deep digging and manuring of the ground, followed by frequent hoeings and keeping clear of weeds, will encourage a hedge to grow quickly quite as much as with other plants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 4
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161HEDGE PLANTING Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 4
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