STIMULANT FUR LEEKS
Of all garden crops none benefit more at the present time from doses of liquid manure given at intervals than the leek (says tho ‘ Taranaki Herald’). After first planting out, and until the young plants have become established, -water alone is quite sufficient until they sit up stiffly and begin to grow. The _ best liquid manure for the leek bed is made from fowl or poultry droppings. Gather these up and store in a box in a dry place. Take a trowel full and stir it into a kerosene tin or largo can of water. This solution, which is rich in nitrogen, will make them grow, and it thickens the stem to those nice firm stalks so economical for kitchen use.
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 23
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124STIMULANT FUR LEEKS Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 23
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