Vegetable Garden
Sow salad vegetables for later crops.
Finch back marrows, pumpkins, and melons.
Tomatoes may be planted out for later crops. Tie up early plants and disbud them. Spray with Bordeaux mixture for plight, and with arsenate of lead for caterpillars. Watch the onion crop carefully for signs of blight. Spray with lime-sulphur (1 in 70). Keep kumeras earthed up. Lift the vines from time to time so as to prevent their rooting. Keep the surface soil well worked. This is one of the most important operations at the present time.
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Celery and leeks may still be planted. Use good, rich soil. Sow cabbage, cauliflower, Broccoli. and other winter greens. Plant out cabbage and cauliflower when weather is favourable. Coal-tar spray will control the Diamond Back moth, and the White Butterfly on cabbages and cauliflowers. Repeat at intervals. Or dust with Derris dust.
. Sow dwarf beans and peas for succession. Gather the bean pods before they become stringy. Sow lettuce, radish, turnip, beet, and short-horn carrots.
Runner beans will benefit by mulching. ' Spray apples and pears for Codlin Moth.
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Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 12
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184Vegetable Garden Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 12
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