GARDEN HINTS
The tidy gardener always finishes off his sowing of seeds with a final levelling up with the rake. Uneven surfaces are unsightly and tend to condemn you in the eyes of your criticising neighbours. (Be tidy). A. quick and easy method to cover up your newly-sown seeds is to shuffle your feet along the rows. Obviously you would not adopt this practice in wet weather oy while the soil is sticky or moist. The greatest pleasure in gardening is to grow everything you can from seed and watch them from seed time until blooming. It makes no difference if you have to wait two or three years; the more interesting it is to you, as you feel you have helped to produce something. Clean and well-drilled gardens are the best precautionary measures to use against slugs and snails. The lazy gardener eats up his profits in resorting to various concoctions for their eradication when the remedy is in his own hands. Hedges should be clipped often for best results. Even the naturally-grow-ing hedges need a bit of trimming now and then to keep them from looking ragged.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 158, 19 June 1936, Page 13
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