THE ONION BED
GIVE DUSTING OF SOOT. Cid soot suits onions well and a dusting sufficient to blacken the ground, can be applied now. Hoe it in to prevent it being blown away, but be careful that it is old soot and not just reclaimed from the chimney during spring cleaning. Onions like lime, too, but that is better worked into the soil before planting. Most soil with which we are acquainted is wet enough at present to require no liquid nourishment but When the surface is well dried it is as well to give one watering with a weak solution of permanganate of potash. One-eighth of an ounce to a gallon of water will be sufficient. Its nourishing power is small, but it is calculated to shift ground pests and ward off the onion fly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 3
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136THE ONION BED Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 3
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