CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1939, Page 24

CORRESPONDENCE

VEGETABLES

Karori. —August is oarly enough to sow carrots, but. if your garden is warm and lies well, to the sun, you might try a few of the shorthorn or stump-rooted variety now. Parsnips: Sow early in September. Early potatoes may be planted this month in favoured localities. Necessarily there is very little growth until the soil warms

up. Pumpkins and marrows like good deep rich soil and may be grown together. These are both essentially warm-weather plants. Seeds may be sown outside in October or under glass in September, the young plants being put out when the. ground has warmed up in October. Best of wishes. ANTIRRHINUMS, ETC.

E.M.S. — Antirrhinums, although sometimes lasting two years, are best treated as annuals, being raised fresh from seeds sown in spring. Lift the Iris stylosa as soon as flowering is over. Shake out all the soil and be very careful to get out every piece of couch grass root or you will have the

same trouble again. Pumpkins and marrows may be grown in the same bed. Deep digging is certainly a great advantage although not absolutely necessary. It adds to the depth of soil for the plants to work in and such soil is less liable to dry out in summer. The rhubarb evidently had a fungoid disease which is probably in the soil. Give a good dressing of burnt lime and for preference replant the rhubarb in a fresh plot. Spraying with lime sulphur would probably clean the roots.