SOOT
A SOIL WARMER. During the next few weeks, if weather conditions are kind, most vegetable seeds can be sown with confidence. Surface dressings of soot are capable of a considerable amount of good. Soot is a hindrance to the rovings of slugs and snails, and it is also a soil improver.
When tiny seedlings are coming through, slugs and snails will travel far to get fresh food. A thin coating of soot spread evenly over the soil will help to protect the seedlings from these pests. The soot has an added advantage. in that it darkens soil which is normally light in colour. Dark soil will accumulate and retain warmth better than the lighter-coloured earth; a point of importance at this season.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 3
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123SOOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 3
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