Protecting Peas
The old-fashioned methods of protecting pens after tliev hare been sown in the soil have had their day. A modern method is much simpler and effective. When the seeds r.re sown in the drill? they are lightly dusted with peat or lealnioiild. This is then thoroughly wetted with a weak insecticide. By far the best for the purpose are those with a nicotine base. To make doubly sure the soil is ngain wetted with the insecticide over the top after covering the trench. Leather-jackets, slugs, lice .iihl slaters, simply refuse to work in soil which has been treated this way. When the seedlings germinate, the watering may be repeated over the top with the same result. It is possible to have 100 per cent crop if the insecticide is used long enough to let the plants get beyond the stage at which they are subject to attack.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)
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