GROUND FOR PEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)

GROUND FOR PEAS.

PREPARE BY TRENCHING. All ground intended for the sowing of ea3 next season should bo dug or renclicd and manured as early as to reather and circumstances permit. Loavy soils are greatly impro\ ed y reneliing and manuring a month or so efore the P eas arc s ° wn - g ivourable climate, and in omparatively virgin soil, the f culinary peas lias ben no trouble at 11 Of late, however,, there have been i~ns that in the future more trouble ill be required in the preparation of lie soil if the small garden is to s yPP'>' [10 home with this beautiful vegetable, nseets and disease (sometimes even bad ceds) arc blamed for the failures, and in measure they may be partly responible, but it is chiefly due to the top ultivated part of the soil becoming sick" with tho result that disease a,nd ests' have a much better chance. The »medv is trenching, and although there ; often a reluctance to turn up a little übsoil to tho sunlight, our gardens -ould carry better crops of peas if the round was worked thirty inches deep, lstead of the usual ten inches.