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Ministry of Agriculture Allotment &
Garden Guide
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facsimile of page 8
February 1945
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Get ready for "RUNNERS" |
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Though you will not be sowing your "runners" until,
say, mid-May, now is the time to get the ground prepared for them, if it is
not already. They need good cultivation and do best when grown where the
soil is trenched and dressed with a good dressing of well-rotted manure or
compost. So if you have not manured the particular plot where your beans are
to go, take out a trench a spit* deep, work in a liberal
* [ed. note] "a spit deep" is the depth of a garden fork prong
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dressing of manure or compost into the lower spit and then replace the top
spit.
Remember, when ordering your seeds, that half-a-pint of
runner beans will sow a row 50 ft. long.
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SOME USEFUL
PUBLICATIONS
The Ministry of Agriculture has published during the
war a number of free leaflets and priced publications that may be helpful to
you, if you have not already had them. There are still some stocks of the
"Dig for Victory" leaflets which you can get |
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free from the Ministry at Berri Court Hotel, St. Annes, Lytham St.
Annes, Lancs. You can get the bulletins through any bookseller or direct
from H.M. Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, W.C.2., at the prices
mentioned below.
Here are some topical leaflets:末 |
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DIG FOR VICTORY LEAFLETS
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 Dig
for Victory Leaflet末
No. 1末Cropping Plan for a 10-rod plot (300 sq. yds.).
No. 23末Cropping Plan for a 5-rod plot (150 sq. yds.).
No. 2末Onions and related crops
No. 4末Peas and Beans
No. 7末How to make a Compost Heap.
No. 12末Seed Potatoes.
No. 19末How to sow Seeds.
And here are some suggestions for priced bulletins:末
 "Growmore" Bulletins
No. 1末Food from the Garden末3d. (4d.)
No. 2末Pest and Diseases in the Vegetable Garden末4d. (5d.)
No. 3末Preserves from the Garden末4d. (5d.)
No. 7末Fruit from the Garden末3d. (4d.)
The prices are net; those in brackets include postage.
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Wt. T21073/8500 50M 2/45
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