CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 20

CORRESPONDENCE

TREATMENT OF STRAWBERRY PLANTS.

W.S.—Strawberry plants do not require to be lifted and divided. All ■ that is necessary tho first and second year is to remove all runners except sufficient to give new plants for .tho fresh plot; The more growth tho plants themselves make the better. After the third year tho old plants may be pulled up and destroyed and a further lot planted to take their place. CHRYSANTHEMUMS AFTER TOWERING. L.R.— After the plants have finished flowering and when young growth appears at the base, the old stems should be cut down to .encourage the young growth from which fresh stock will be propagated. The blooms will not deteriorate if .the plants aro grown fresh each year, biif'if you have the old stpola; to produce several ' stems then the '.-. flowers will naturally not be: so large or fine. . . . Gooseberry ; pruning will be dealt with next ■week. . ■ CATERPILLARS AND POTATOES. "Amateui* Gardener."— Tho present season has been very favourable for all kinds of insect pests, and in all parts of tho ; country considerable damage has been done : to various, crops of vegetables by grubs and other insects. In such a, period the insects attack other crops besides their ordinary food. " The particular green caterpillar you mention, is, I think, the same as that which attacks tomatoes so badly. Most of the grubs and caterpillars may be kept off the various plants by spraying with arsenate of lead.

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