ROUTINE GARDEN WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19834, 3 January 1928, Page 4

ROUTINE GARDEN WORK.

REQUISITE ATTENTION, After the holiday season is past tho gardener must return to work and attend to those crops which require it. During the past week the more or less boisterous winds may possibly have played havoc with crops that were not too securely supported or which, in the ordinaiy course of events, are not given any support. One of the first tasks, then, will bo to straighten up those plants whiih have been blown over by the wind. Most probs.bly the "heads" of asparagus, which have been allowed to develop fully, will have suffered at the 'hands of the wind with the result that they are lying over. These should bo straightened along with the other crops and, in ordjir to prevent a recurrence of this state of affairs some support should be afforded tie plants. Do not neglect to continue ibs successive applications of Bordeaux 4—4—40 or lime sulphur 1 in 50 to prevent attack by the-Irish blight fungus. It ill. as will be remembered, durjng spells of hum.* atmospheric conditions such as have been experienced recently that the blight's spread is greatly favoured. During these spells, then, extra apraying precautions should be taken.