HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
"CNOWY," the 2ZB Gardening Expert, must have felt rather like Jack confronted by the proverbial Beanstalk, when he surveyed the vegetable matter brought into the studio for judging on a recent Saturday. Above on the left you see "Snowy," looking a. trifle wilted, and some of the vegetables looking remarkably healthy. This was the fourth leg of the Gardening Com-
petition which has been run by 2ZB over the past year, and the studio certainly had a Harvest Festival appearance. Each winner received orders on a city shop for gardening requisites as prizes, but the grand prize over the whole season was the Challenge Cup, donated by "Snowy." And in the photograph on the right you see the winner. She is Mrs, F. W.
Benge, of Upper Hutt, a_ consistent winner through the four quarterly contests. The cup was presented to her at the studio by the Controller of the Commercial Broadcasting Service (C. G. Scrimgeour). Also in the picture are "Snowy" (on the left) and the two runners-up, H. Walton of Makara, who was second, and G. W. Holmes of Lower
Hutt, who, was third. We have heard a good deal about the perverse tendencies of vegetables this season and the disappointments of the weather, but it certainly does seem that many gardening difficulties might be overcome by listening in to "Snowy’s" gardening advice from 2ZB each Saturday morning at 10 o’clock,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 140, 27 February 1942, Page 17
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