YOUR GARDEN AND MINE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 50

YOUR GARDEN AND MINE

By

Ann Earncliff

Brown

[No. 3]

ARDENING more than GG usual" can quite usefully be the wartime slogan of women gardeners. Since most of us must remain a good deal at home, let us, with the least cash outlay, make home as bright as gay colours in the flower beds can make it, Towards this end, I have ready to plant out two boxes of antirr-hinums-one a vivid orange-scar-let fairly tall in habit, the other a soft flame in a dwarf variety. There is now a large colour range of these very easily grown giant flowering perennials in dwarf, semi-dwarf, and giant varieties, so that very effective results can be obtained at almost no cost. The antirrhinum is useful:(a) In tall bold clumps in the herbaceous border. (b) As an effective border or bedding out scheme in dwarf and_ semi-dwarf varieties. (c) In interior or exterior window boxes either alone or in conjunction with golden gleam or the _ scented

double red nasturtium to add a touch of grace to the stiffer blooms. Whatever your colour scheme, antirrhinums to tone or contrast effectively are at your service. Where space permits make several plantings of potatoes, and. Catriona is an excellent first early. Where frost danger is over, potatoes of course are well up. Draw the earth well up round these. Sow peas as soon as your earlier sowings are well away. Protect all sowings of peas with black cotton. Don’t wait till the birds remind you of this. Stretch the thread across when you do your planting. Spinach sown in several successions provides a very useful green. Where you have only a tiny vegetable plot you can sow salad greens to keep the family supplied with the garden fresh lettuce and endive which are so much enjoyed, Whatever the scope of your activities I know from _ personal experience how reassuring and comforting in times of stress, is the feeling of moist sun-warm soil. Peace or war, Nature goes ahead with her job.