HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR
Ffuit, Flowers and Vegetables WORK FOR THE WEEK > VEGETABLE GARDEN. Protect young seedling crops from slugs and snails by laying baits. Dig-in green manuring crops so that they may decay before the ground is required for planting. Cabbage for spring use should have a pinch of nitrate of soda to help them along. Make fresh beds of rhubarb by planting new roots. Plant out autumn-sown onions where the ground has been well prepared. At the first favourable opportunity make a small sowing of turnips, round beet, spinach and lettuce. FLOWER GARDEN. Plant out pansies, nemesia and stocks for a succession of bloom. Divide and transplant herbaceous plants where these have grown too large for their positions. Perennial plants with thick, fleshy roots are best transplanted in spring. The pruning of roses can be taken in hand by the end of the month. FRUIT GARDEN. Prune the outdoor vines in good time; bleeding results from late pruning. When pruning is completed, give a good mulch of animal manures. Complete the pruning operations and clean up all the debris.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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