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REGISTERED BLENHEIM MUSICAL MASTER BUILDERS THEATRE LES MISERABLE APPRENTICE OF INFORMATION NIGHT

THE YEAR AWARDS Blenheim

Renwick 1. Director Peter Meikle and Shelley Fraser 2. Josh Marshall and Michelle Chapman 1. 3. John and Trevor Tovey James Dight, Ella Kendrick Harvey 2. Rowan Lee, Donna Lee, Daniel OKeefe and Theodore McFadden 4. and Scott Kinzett Emily Hales and Choreographer Liana Bell 3. 5. Brent Woodward and Cameron Palmer-Mcgruer Chris Valli and Linda van Kuyk 4. 6. Henry Leov and Mark Lovelock Ella Kendrick Harvey and Racheal Kenyon 5. 7. Kelvin and Jess Deaker Joshua Wright and Peter Meikle 6. 8. Mathew Campbell and William Reimers Louisa Woods, Liana Bell and Shandi Smale 7. 9. Fergus Kearns and Hamish Scott Vocal Director Linda Holdaway, Production 8. Rodney Wiblim, Gary Cooke and Daniel Small Manager Michael Wentworth and Liana Bell 9. Stuart Caulfield, Neville Ward and Kieren Mallon 10. Meghan Deaker, Donna Ryan and Hamish Ryan

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It’s planting time

Kitchen Garden

Sow seeds: Beetroot, beans, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplants, kohl Rabi, lettuce, cucumber, melons. Transplant to the garden as the weather warms and when they are showing at least two sets of true leaves. If you’re not sure about growing from seeds.

Plant seedlings: Eggplant, capsicum, cucumber, melons, lettuce, capsicums, leeks, cabbage, corn, pumpkin, celery, onions, silverbeet, courgettes. Tomatoes can be planted now the weather is warmer. Dig compost into the soil before planting. Put the stake in at the same time to save root damage later on. Plant seedlings: Beans, peas, courgettes, cauliflower, carrots, radish, beetroot, pumpkin, spinach, corn, lettuce and tomatoes. Feed all vegetable plants fortnightly with a liquid fertiliser, water and fertiliser at the same time!

Feed your potatoes with blood and bone every two weeks and remember to mound up the soil around as the foliage as it grows. Protect seedlings with slugs and snails with bait, scatter around each plant. Garden Colour

Keep on top of the weeds around your vegetables when they are small, use a torpedo hoe to nip them off at the roots. Lavender makes a great low hedge, suits every garden and is perfectly happy by the seaside. Sow seeds: Alyssum, Californian poppy, marigolds, cosmos, nasturtium, Livingstone daisy, petunia, salvia and gerberas. Transplant to the garden as the weather warms and when they are showing at least two sets of true leaves. Plant seedlings: Ageratum, alyssum, aster, begonia, californian poppy, carnation, cosmos, dahlia, impatiens, marigold, and petunia. Your local Mitre 10 store will now be stocking a full range of spring annuals. Sunflowers can now be planted directly in to the soil. Plant for bees: Pineapple sage, bergamot, lemon balm, blue salvia, coreopsis, echinops, eryngium, gaillardia, alyssum, rosemary. They love these simple flowers. Feed all flowering annuals and perennials, use an all purpose fertiliser.

Trees and Shrubs

Fill up any empty space in the shrub border. More plants, less weeds.

Feed flowering shrubs with a side dressing of general fertiliser. Evergreen hedges should be pruned before the end of the active growing season. Prune lightly with hedge shears to desired height and width. If hydrangeas are looking a bit pale, give the colour a boost. Sulphate of Aluminium will intensify the blue coloured flowers; add lime for your pink flowers. Lawn

Spray for Onehunga weed, it comes in to flower in September and October now is the time to spray for it. Attack the broadleaf weeds in the lawn. Wait for a calm day before using any sprays. Sow new lawn; take advantage of the spring rain and warmth to germinate new seed. Fertilise your lawn for spring. Apply evenly across the whole lawn and water in.