PLANTING IN MAY
MUCH DEPENDS ON SOIL AND SITUATION.
It always depends somewhat upon seasonal vagaries and upon the soil and situation, how far May planting will lie along the road to safety. Where one’s soil is cold and heavy, or lowlying and liable to winter flooding, only the most robust of fibrous-rooted plants should be transferred to new quarters during this month of declining daylight and falling temperatures. On light soils in well-drained situations it is a decided advantage to getmost of the planting done now, rather than wait until spring. A fairly safe rule is to choose those things that make masses of fibre for autumn planting and to leave those with thong-like or fleshy roots until spring.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 8
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120PLANTING IN MAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 8
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