Vegetable Garden
Plant shallots, tree onions and onions. Dig it well, manure well, potato onions. and put the drainage right. Sow lettuce, broad beans and store all garden refusG) fallen green peas. leaves, etc., and add a little lime to Plant out cabbage and lettuce assist decay. during suitable weather. _ . , Burn all diseased plant refuse Late potatoes and kumeras should and other combustible rubbish, be gathered during fine weather; Sprinkle the ashes on the garden, they should be dry when stored. * Hoe lightly and often between Prepare rhubarb beds by clean- rows of vegetables, ing, digging and manuring. ' As soon as the strawberry bed Soot spread on the soil and has been planted, commence culiightly stirred in is excellent for tivation the garden at this season. The earliest sown onions may be Commence the preparation of the planted out towards the end of ground for the spring planting of June.
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Northern Advocate, 11 May 1940, Page 11
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150Vegetable Garden Northern Advocate, 11 May 1940, Page 11
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