Kumara Propagation
If you prefer to raise your own plants, the tubers may be started any time now. Make a shallow hot-bed with manure, and over this place a layer of soil. Choose healthy tubers mid arrange them evenly on the soil of the hot-bed. Finally cover with two or three inches of soil. Each tuber will soon throw up an abundance of shoots from the dormant buds. When these are five or six inches high pull them off and plant them out closely together. When they have become well rooted, lift and transfer them to their permanent beds. If you have no material for a hot-bed. put the tubers in a warm soil in a sheltered, sunny position.
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Northern Advocate, 30 August 1947, Page 3
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119Kumara Propagation Northern Advocate, 30 August 1947, Page 3
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