IN CASE OF SCARCITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 9

IN CASE OF SCARCITY

SAVE YOUR OWN SEED. In ease there should be a shortage of vegetable seeds next season, it would be advisable for those who can to save at least a portion of their requirements. There is no use saving seeds from carrorU. turnips and beetroot, which are throwing up flower stems from plants sown this season They are simply reverting to the annua! stage, in which they miss the root development one. Good, well-shaped roots can be saved in the autumn. stored in soil during the winter, and planted to produce seed next season. Vegetables which are annuals can be saved this season, these being spinach, peas, broad, runner ami French beans lettuce, mustard ami cress. Good, clean healthy plants should be selected in the case of lettuce and spinach, and these should be staked to prevent the (lower stem from being broken over by the wind. When picking peas and beans a few well-developed, good-shaped pods true to the type of the variety should be left, and when ripe they can be collected, and spread out on newsp;,|H‘rs hi shallow boxes in a cool, mry shed ■,.> dry, when the seeds can be cleaned and stored away m cardboard boxes m paper bags until next <.> on Tubcis or potatoe. usually called seed though not true seeds, should also lie saved as digging proceed- medium sized ones being taken frem th--most productive plants, not the plant which produce a number of small tin-tievehijH-d tubers as well as some large opes, or those which have only a few very large tubers. They should also be true to type and after digging they can b<* spread out in shallow boxes .and placed on the -h.'idv cid« of a hedge or A b.; ,nt woman immapere <■< a ; irgi' laundry wre bmvailrng th<- lack ■ f ediiram-;:. ;>nmng members ■ f lie: m,vn M‘X. r-.cp. wl'.ep oceilpvmg good pmiijon I receive m,W }rUe(*S she aid ■ ~.a i imd tw ■ words which fre- '!•.;<. j-.tlv ■ crur in - generally ■>■ r'>ua , I >■ xorb;laid