Carrots on Heavy Soil
r THOSE who have difficulty in growing carrots on heavy soil will be interested in the experience of a correspondent who has had groat success. The ground is dug deeply, for no matter what methods are pursued afterwards, they are useless without deep digging. "Work in several buckets of sand as the digging proceeds, taking care to distribute the sand evenly. Prepare the drills for the seeds by making them 2in. deep. Fill these to the required depth with sand, sprinkle a layer of saud over the seed and finally rake the soil over as usual.. To keep the carrot fly at bay, the correspondent sprinkles sand impregnated with kerosene between the rows and claims that the carrots have never been attacked by fly while using this.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23809, 9 November 1940, Page 8 (Supplement)
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