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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 15, 1936
Page
1
A garden column discusses ten week stocks and Giant Perfec tion zinnias with colors from blue to gold, Tagetes Signata Pumila as an early border plant, Verbenas from cuttings, and Zinnia Linearis for borders. It also notes kitchen garden work for September including sowing important vegetables, preparing beds, drying seed beds, and drills ready for germination.
The passage explains sowing seeds indoors in pots, thinning to keep strong seedlings, hardening off, and transplanting after frost danger. It covers spacing 18 inches apart and 24 inches between rows, pinching leaders at 6 to 8 inches, hoeing and bone fertilizer for growth, mulching when fruit sets, and limiting fruits per plant. It lists best varieties New York Purple White Pearl Low French beans broccoli cauliflower late carrot leeks kohl rabi lettuce onion parsley peas seakale spinach plus cool season tomatoes melons capsicums celeriac pumpkins marrows squash and suggests planting asparagus cabbage beet onions lettuce herbs rhubarb.
Reports from Wagga show lucerne grown before seeding helps ground settle and allows skeleton weed to be eradicated in four to five years. Gippsland & Northern Co-op urge sowing now to beat busy spring competition and warn against cheap seed, urging government triple-cleaned seed for quality and purity.
The article explains lucerne benefits from care and attention, noting that deep, well-drained loams allow roots to descend to great depths. Under favorable conditions roots may reach twenty to thirty feet, improving moisture and nutrient uptake. Impervious clays are poor, but subsoiling can loosen subsoils to sixteen to eighteen inches for better growth.
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