LEEKS
PLANTING HINTS. Seed of leeks should be sown now and the plants can be put out as soon as large enough. Plants put in now would probably be from seed sown in the autumn and would go to seed very auickly. Leeks .are gross feeders and enjoy plenty of animal manures of any kind, dug into the soil, when preparing the bed. Blood and bone at four ounces per square yard will suit 'if animal manures are unobtainable. When planting, make holes with a crowbar or a stout stake about nine inches deep and nine inches apart. Drop one plant in each hole, give a little water and leave the plants to grow up out of the holes which will gradually fill in themselves. A good length of'blanched stem is then secured without the trouble of moulding up.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 2
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