SWEET PEA TRENCHES
AVOID MISTAKES. In the preparation of trenches for' sweet peas, many mistakes are made, but none more frequently than that of cutting out and preparing a deep, narrow trench in a plot of hard packed soil. The result is that the trench acts as nothing more than a sump for surplus moisture from the adjoining area during wet weather. . There is nothing of which sweet peas are more intolerant than an excess of moisture. Their resentment of such conditions is speedily shown. Innumerable cases of bud dropping during the summer, which as a rule, are put down to adverse weather conditions, are due to the roots penetrating to cold waterlogged soil. Deep cultivation is certainly an aid to success in sweet peas culture, but unless a considerable area of soil is turned, deep working is liable to do more harm than good. Far better results would be achieved were growers content to dig less deeply and take out trenches three or four feet wide instead of foot wide drains.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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172SWEET PEA TRENCHES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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