Skip to main content

Vegetable gardening

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

HARRINGTON, Henry interviewed by Lloyd Esler

 Record Group — Box 10
Identifier: H0027
Overview This interview covers Henry’s retirement to Ohai and the attractions of the area e.g. good trout fishing. It also covers his passion for saving seeds where he saves ‘anything at all’. Plus the storage of these, Maori potatoes, crop rotation and pest remedies. Henry describes carrot varieties and flavours and how to grow them.
Dates: 2006

LEWIS, David interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0246
Overview In this interview, David talks about his time as the gardener looking after the extensive grounds of the Riverton Hospital in from 1977 into the early 1990s when the hospital was sold to become a private elderly care home. David describes his duties and some of the other staff at the hospital who would help him.
Dates: 2016