Grey Power’s Meet the Candidates

Wainuiomata Grey Power is hosting a “Meet the Candidates” meeting on Wednesday 23 August, 1:30pm at the Wainuiomata Bowling Club.

The club will welcome anyone from the community who might be interested to attend. Five candidates in the 23 October General Election have confirmed they will attend. The five are:

Labour—Ginny Andersen;

National—Chris Bishop; Green Party—Neelu Jennings;

The Opportunities Party—Ben Wylie-van Eerd; and NZ First—Lee Donoghue

Each candidate will have five minutes to speak then can take questions from the floor. a hole and fill with grass clippings then repot your tomato plants into pots a bit bigger than what they were purchased in, use black pots as they are best for trapping heat. The reason being is that you dont want to go into too bigger pot too soon and have the danger of over watering and maybe killing the tomato plants.

Grey Power will be asking each candidate about their plans for the future of the New Zealand Superannuation and what progress has been made with issues around health and housing for seniors.

Recently some Wainuiomata Grey Power members have been scammed, and one was involved in a very serious assault so crime is now an issue for some seniors too.

Grey Power Wainuiomata wants to sincerely thank all of the candidates for their time and the Wainuiomata Bowling Club who support the club in everything it does.

You can keep re-potting into larger size pots as the plants fill the pot with their root system.

Apply the Wallys Secret Tomato with Neem at each stage, in the pot and on top of the mix.

The plants will need watering and a little often, during the day is the rule rather than a drench to make the soil colder at night.

If you do not have a glasshouse you can use a sunny porch, conservatory, car port or under the eaves on the north side of the house. The potting up progressively to bigger size containers is the answer for best results.

Later on when the season progresses you can plant your potted tomatoes out into a sunny sheltered area of the garden.

Likely they will then be about a metre tall and in a large bucket size container.

Using Wallys Neem Tree Granules and Yellow sticky white fly traps out doors will also help reduce insect pest problems.

If you do not have any place to plant your tomato plant then get a plastic container or plastic rubbish bin than is between 50 litres to 100 litres.

A 200 litre plastic drum cut in half is ideal. But make sure its sitting where the plant will spend all summer and autumn as it will be very heavy to move around. Use Daltons Value Compost as the growing medium.

Apply Wallys secret Tomato Food With Neem to the soil surface every so often or every 4-6 weeks

It has a good amount of potash which will ensure you have great juicy tasting fruit.

If you had problems with the tomato psyllid last season then you need to invest in Wallys Cell Strengthening products to eradicate the pests from your back yard. Spray your tomato plants with

Wally Magic Botanic Liquid (MBL) every week as they are growing to ensure healthy good producing plants.

I mix up the MBL in a one litre trigger spray bottle and leave it sitting near the tomato plants so I can spray them when ever passing if required.

If any insect pests start to get established such as white fly then spay just before sun set with Wallys Super Neem Tree Oil and Super Pyrethrum combined, under and over foliage. Repeat every 7 days as required. If you have a worry about blight on your tomatoes then Spray them with Wallys Super Copper Nutrient at 5 mil rate and a month later again.

If blight does attack spray the Plants with Perkfection at 7mil rate.

When removing laterals only do so on a sunny day when the air is dry.

To set fruit on a sunny day tap plants to make them vibrate which sets the fruit.

Ensure that later on when in flower that the medium is kept moist so you do not get blossom end rot.