THE WENDY HUT

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1933, Page 19 (Supplement)

THE WENDY HUT

HUT GARDENER SPEAKS. ADVICE FOR GARDENING TINKS. - Dear. links, ■ Your pages are usually so full that I seldom get a chance to. Write to. you, but Wendy has promised me a space this week in which I shall give you a few.little helpful hints for your, gardens. We wish we could see your gardens, Tinks. Many of you mention,, in your letters, that you have them, and that makes us very happy because your little garden plots, be they ever so tiny, make, your particular part of this world bright and lovely for everyone who passes your way. And do you not feel proud when you can give a nosegay to Mummy. on her birthday, made from flowers grown and tended by—just you? As for .vegetable gardens—everyone knows how useful they are, and ;we consider that that 5s the boy’s department. Now for some advice, First of all, keep spare ground, or indeed any ground in which you intend to plant,, well dug so that these heavy frosts we are having will sweeten it This is important to remember. Sow and plant beauty stocks; sow seeds of Virginian stock, escholtzia, calendula,' larkspur, and antirrhinum. You* may plant out nemesias in sheltered spots, as they are very frost tender. You may sow the seeds of iceland poppies (the mixed strain is best as that includes all the variety of ■ colours), and of pansies, but if you have previously done this, and the plants are ready, plant them but in the borders. It is the time for planting out rose-cuttings, and to do this cut, with a very sharp knife, a piece just below the bud, taking care that it is firm wood, not soft and pithy. Then insert twO-thirds of it in the ground and make it firm. , Now, boys, I hope your vegetable gardens are ready to receive the seeds (or plants) of cabbages and cauliflowers. Sow broad beans, radishes and turnips, keeping the latter two out of the way of frost. Muslin Or even newspapers, thrown over plants just 'before the sun goes oft them, Will protect them. Put but your potatoes to sprout in a well-lighted place and they may be planted, away from the: frost, in July. Living, as some of you do, so close to the mountain, you will bo wise not to let Jack Frost even get a ’'look in.” Your-friend, HUT GARDENER.