PLANTING IN TRENCHES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18518, 15 March 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)

PLANTING IN TRENCHES.

Conditions are still favourable for the planting out of celery for the main crop, and if the trenches have been thoroughly prepared and manured the plants should now be put in. In transplanting from tli boxes the best plan is to cut between each plant with a knife, so that the plants can be lifted with a good ball of earth attached to each plant. If this is carefully done the plants can be removed with the whole of the roots practically intact, or, at least, but little check will result in their removal. In planting, the single row is the

best method of culture, as the plants are more open to light and air, are leus liable to disease, while the earthing up is more easily performed than when planted in double rows. This, of course, applies only to the varieties that require artificial bleaching and not to the self-bleaching varieties. In planting place the plants in a straight line alone the centre of the trench, allowing a distance of about nine inches between each plant, the soil being made firm around each plant. To secure really, first-class celery, one of the (chief essentials is to keep the plants ! well supplied with moisture during dry (weather or until the earthing up is al- ! most completed. Being planted in a ' sunken trench, the soil naturally rei tains the moisture much longer than on the level and more exposed surface.

I Some big confectionery manufacturers in England have as many as 1000 j varieties of sweetmeats on their lists. Gardening lectures or classes are now being held in thirteen British prisons, under the National Gardens | Guild.