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Austratoms are fAe grafted tomatoes Here's why * v The first four prizewinners last year entered plants with 817, 827,634 and 633 fruit - that’s 3011 tomatoes on only 4 plants at one time. Put up a big frame for your Austratom. Even if you have to use the orchard ladder Kgpjkxto pick them, you II get hundreds of fruit says Bob Darrington. |h| Bob would know about a strong support. Snek <*®* He entered an Austratom in last Great MKmB ' Austratom contest and won SlOOO.OO first prize when we verified 917 fruits on the |Bs' plant at counting time! And each fruit had to be 2cm (nearly an inch) in diameter. Tiddlers, emerging embryos didn t count. A '’>/ < number of Bobs earliest tomatoes had ripened and fallen or been picked. They couldn t count either. But although Bob Darrington carried off first prize with an Austratom which looked something like an enraged triffed, climbing and billowing above an enormous structure, we've also seen many, very successful. Austratom s grown long and low. Bob's later fruit were ripening happily 11 feet from the ground. Hundreds of small and half formed fruit not counted for the contest ripened in the autumn early winter. But providing your support structure is strong enough to hold up the huge plant in a breeze it needn't be the skyscraper design. "Give Austratoms early shelter from the wind and keep staking them" - advice from Ernie Amoore of v Raglan. VW* Ernie is a mechanic who works on tractors, but t his garden is strictly a home plot, cultivated by manpower. His entry last year was an Austratom which at counting sported 633 fruit. "I kept the plant long and low, in the shelter of a block wall. That S 1,000.00 prize will get a fright this year, ' / a T WBw . warns Ernie - "I gathered up a neighbour’s discarded soil ano grew anAustratom *" ano,Bbattl - wcountin 9 hatf 827 hestthy tomatoes.’’- Nev Quintal of Mount ' B Of course I ’ook hundreds more fruit before it ■■ died down in the winter. This year Nev has i JKa rigged up a more substantial container than the old bath. He doesn t want his Austratom to run short of space for root development. And here's how! 'Austratucker' brings out the best in tomatoes. Austratucker is a balanced food especially form- — ulated for tomatoes. It includes vital trace elements I in addition to N, P, K. Use it as a base dressing at | planting time or as a fortnightly side dressing from I x 1 first fruit set. 4kg. bag only $2.35 (organic based). A And 'Austratoddy' liquid plant food. Austratoddy is for all types of high producing plants, whether cultivated for flower, fruit or decorative foliage. Organic based and highly concentrated by a new process. 500 ml. bottles 51.99. Great for grafted tomatoes. Austratoms are only 99c and that includes the free cultural booklet and $lOOO competition entry form. All about double Gypsophila tV Plant them in full sun in a well drained posi- •«. - tian an d will produce clouds of dainty H° wers year after year. Bristol Fairy is the t double white variety which grows about Im. Pink Star is an N.Z. raised variety a double pink 30-40 cms. Gypsophilas are herbaceous which means they die down in the winter. However, give them, plenty of space to produce their summer show. Lovely for cut- . ting SI .99 each. Doubloon, Carmencita, Mary Palmer, Hawaiian Orange, Cream Delight are just some examples from the exculsive collection of new Bougainvilleas. <•» Bougainvilleas are, alos. not for everybody but if you have a frost A free wall or pergola treat your- ' self to one of the most spectacular X flowering climbers. We have .. doubles and singles in orange. W ~ magenta yellow, white pink and scarlet 52.75 and 53.25. For the JI traditional there are also ola ? I favourites Killie Campbell and Searle' O Hara. Full selection at each of Gardenways 3 garden centres. (Also mixed varieties Jr - W v < ’ '' Jffli Gdrrtenwdv 3gii v • - \ Wk — Win a bicycle in Gardenway's |L JI Super Sunflower competition ■ll f fill/ 51 S f° r children. BWWX ■ ■ U Collect your entry form at Gardeng _ — way when you purchase the seed I B — ( 50c P er packet) or ask Mum or ■■■ tf ■■fill Bl V> Dad t 0 9ef your P° c, < ef when they B r_j next visit G ’ urder| way. Ask for Star ■ ■WX BBS ■» Seeds Giant Russian Sunflower 19 Chalmers Street Ttas,heon ’ you "" eed ” behind Hornby Mall Sa ' u,d ! ¥ ' and 7 Holiday Monday. MARSHLAND RICCARTON 19 Chalmers St Cnr Marshland & Preston 89-91 Picton Ave