Work During Midsummer
USUALLY it is the gardener that needs watching from now on—watching and stimulating and encouraging and exhorting. For it is not to be denied that midsummer is an alluring time, with something about it something other than the heat that makes it difficult to stay on the job. Stay on the job one must, if all the work that has been done up to this time is not to go for naught. In other words, when one starts a garden one starts sojnething which must be finished. Loose, light soil, half an inch deep everywhere, dust actually, and the sprayer ready at hand for instant action—these are the two most important things. After them comes the prompt picking of every vegetable and flower at the instant that it should be picked, not a day later. And after this conies the further sowing of such things as may be sowed for succession. Never enough can be said about doing things in the garden 011 time, for time is either your friend or your enemy. Better keep him your friend, for he is a dangerous enemy. <$>- <3>
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)
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