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A weekly date with Percy Thrower who continues the earliest outdoor sowing with peas, brussels sprouts, and parsnips; shows the correct use of some essential garden tools, and in the greenhouse pricks out onion seedlings into boxes and repots ferns.
A. D. C. Main a seed potato specialist from Perth shows his recommended varieties of early and main crop seed potatoes, and discusses all aspects of wart-disease immunity, chitting, planting, pest control, feeding, and economic harvesting of the potato for the gardener.
From the BBC's Midland television studio
(A BBC telerecording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
A. D. C Main
Presented by:
Paul Morby

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