CLEAN VP RUBBISH.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 732, 8 April 1933, Page 23 (Supplement)

CLEAN VP RUBBISH.

Although it is necessary to have a rubbish heap or somewhere that a bit of waste material can be placed, the lose rubbish and the sooner rubbish is disposed of the better. In large gardens fliere is room to stack dead leaves, manure and such like to decay, but in small areas where space is limited the place for manure to be transformed into plant food is in the ground. When dealing with such things as primings, hedge clippings, they should be burned as soon as possible; this eliminates the danger of fostering disease and pests, for no place is a more fertile nursery of disease than the usual rubbish heap. There are two methods of disposal. Manure and fallen leaves should be dug

in as soon as possible or used as a mulching. Woody mulching should be burned, and if a fireplace is built of a few bricks and covered with a piece of old iron to keep out the wet, burning is not difficult even in bad weather. The other softer and wet rubbish should be buried, and for this purpose open a trench at least two or three feet deep, put in the rubbish, starting at one end. and as the trench is filled put the soil back on top. In time you will have first-class bit of trench ground, rubbish heaps unknown, and less slugs, snails and other garden pests.

KILLING WEEDS ON LAWN. A cheap and easy method of killing dandelions, docks and such like taprooted weeds on the lawn is by the following method:—Procure a wooden skewer, plunge it into the centre of the weed, then put a few drops of petrol into the wound. This can be done by having a bottle of petrol with a string, tied round the neck, and looped so as to hang on the wrist. Have a notched stick in the bottle, and after piercing the plant, drop a few drops of petrol into it from the notched stick carried in the bottle. Above all, remember that »vhen using petrol not to smoke, or lerious burns may be the result.