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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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GARDENING<br />
Email matt.slaughter@starmedia.kiwi<br />
by 5pm each Wednesday<br />
A glasshouse is a<br />
good investment<br />
Christmas Storytime will be held at all <strong>Selwyn</strong> libraries on Thursday<br />
from 6pm to 7pm. Go along and celebrate Christmas at the final storytime<br />
of the year. Listen to Christmas stories, sing songs and take part in the<br />
Santa hunt. Suitable for 3+ years. Free. Bookings not required. <br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> SeniorNet<br />
Lincoln on Wednesday,<br />
10am-noon, Leeston on<br />
Thursday, 10am-noon and<br />
Rolleston on Fiday 10amnoon<br />
SeniorNet brings older<br />
adults and technology<br />
together in a friendly, fun<br />
and stress-free way. It’s for<br />
people over the age of 50<br />
who’d like to learn more<br />
about technology and what<br />
it can do for them. To join<br />
in Rolleston or Lincoln<br />
phone Tui Heighway 027<br />
765 5194 and for Leeston<br />
phone Terry Pierson 324<br />
2300.<br />
Lincoln Event Centre,<br />
Leeston Library and<br />
Rolleston Men’s Shed<br />
Rhymetimes<br />
Rolleston on Wednesday,<br />
9.30-10am, Lincoln on<br />
Tuesday and Friday, 9.30-<br />
10am<br />
Stories, songs, rhymes<br />
and bubbles make up<br />
this Rhymetimes session,<br />
which is designed to<br />
assist with early language<br />
development. Aimed at<br />
children aged one to three.<br />
Free, weekly sessions,<br />
term-time only.<br />
Rolleston and Lincoln<br />
libraries<br />
Sensory Babytimes<br />
Wednesday, 9.30-10am<br />
Share interactive songs,<br />
stories, sensory boards and<br />
bubbles. These sessions<br />
are designed to help<br />
cultivate early language<br />
and literacy and support<br />
the development of motor<br />
skills for those up to oneyear-old.<br />
Lincoln Library<br />
Chess Club<br />
Wednesday and Monday,<br />
3.30pm-4.30pm and<br />
Saturday, 1.30pm-3pm<br />
Chess is one of the oldest<br />
games in the world and<br />
is estimated to have been<br />
invented in about 600BC.<br />
Go along and find out<br />
what makes this game<br />
so popular. No bookings<br />
necessary.<br />
Lincoln Library on<br />
Wednesday and Leeston<br />
Library on Monday<br />
Craft and Chat Group<br />
Thursday, 10am-12pm<br />
Go along with your<br />
current craft project<br />
to work on while you<br />
get to know fellow<br />
craft enthusiasts. An<br />
opportunity to share tips,<br />
tricks and skills.<br />
Lincoln Library<br />
Rekindle Circular<br />
Baskets<br />
Saturday, 11.30am-<br />
3.30pm<br />
This course will give<br />
you a resourceful skill.<br />
This technique for basketweaving<br />
can be used with<br />
many different materials.<br />
You will be taught how to<br />
use tī kōuka / cabbage tree<br />
leaves. If you have access<br />
to brown cabbage tree<br />
leaves take them along.<br />
Suitable for 18+ years.<br />
Greenpark Community<br />
Centre<br />
Down By The Liffey<br />
Gallery Exhibition<br />
Now until <strong>December</strong><br />
13, Wednesdays and<br />
Thursdays, 11.30am-<br />
2.30pm and Fridays to<br />
Sundays, 10am to 4pm<br />
Featuring Guild artists<br />
from Christchurch and<br />
Canterbury districts. The<br />
Guild aims to promote<br />
painting through<br />
friendship and fun. This<br />
two week exhibition<br />
features a special<br />
Christmas Gift Shop full<br />
of gift ideas.<br />
1 James St, Lincoln<br />
Markets<br />
Rolleston Farmers<br />
Market:Sunday, 9am-<br />
12.30pm, 96 Rolleston<br />
Drive<br />
Darfield<br />
Market:Saturday, 9am-<br />
1pm, opposite Challenge<br />
Darfield, South Tce.<br />
Market@254:Saturday,<br />
9.30am-1pm, rain or shine,<br />
254 Lawford Rd, West<br />
Melton.<br />
Lincoln Farmers and<br />
Craft Market:Saturday,<br />
10am-1pm, Gerald St.<br />
Running groups<br />
Rolleston Road<br />
Runners: Thursday<br />
registration from 6.15pm<br />
for a 6.30pm start.<br />
3km, 6km and 9km<br />
options in Foster Park,<br />
next to the gravel car park.<br />
Lincoln Road Runners:<br />
Tuesday registration from<br />
5.40pm for a 6pm start.<br />
3km or 6km options.<br />
Starts outside Coffee<br />
Culture on Gerald St.<br />
Malvern Road Runners:<br />
Tuesday registration from<br />
5.45pm for a 6pm start.<br />
1.8km, 3km and 6km<br />
options. Meet at McHughs<br />
Plantation.<br />
Ellesmere Road<br />
Runners: Wednesday<br />
registration from 5.45pm,<br />
starts at 6pm. 3km or 6km<br />
walk or run. Starts from<br />
Leeston Physiotherapy.<br />
Foster Park Run:<br />
Saturday from 7.50am.<br />
Free weekly timed 5km<br />
run, jog or walk. Register<br />
at www.parkrun.co.nz/<br />
foster and don’t forget<br />
your barcode. Foster Park,<br />
Rolleston.<br />
IF YOU DO not have a<br />
glasshouse but are keen<br />
on gardening, you should<br />
invest in one.<br />
It can be a plastic or glass<br />
structure and if you have to<br />
choose between the two, go<br />
for glass as you only have to<br />
replace broken panes – not<br />
all of the plastic every few<br />
years.<br />
Plastic is cheaper, especially<br />
if you build your own.<br />
It takes only a little bit of<br />
building skill to construct<br />
an A-frame using 50 x<br />
50mm wood and covering<br />
it with horticulture plastic<br />
film. Alternatively cover<br />
with a clear light-type nova<br />
lite.<br />
The bigger the house, the<br />
more ventilation is needed.<br />
The door is one major vent,<br />
and one or more roof vents<br />
should be included. Never<br />
paint or use shade cloth on<br />
the outside of my glasshouses.<br />
The glass is allowed to<br />
become dirty from the end<br />
of winter but washed clean<br />
once a year in autumn.<br />
With right use of the vents<br />
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and water you can keep the<br />
temperature from getting<br />
too hot in summer. (If you<br />
need to shade the house in a<br />
hot summer you can make<br />
up a slurry of hydrated<br />
lime and water and paint<br />
this over the outside of the<br />
glass.)<br />
Try to keep the temperature<br />
below 30 deg C and<br />
ideally at about 25 deg C.<br />
Good ventilation and water<br />
on the concrete can keep<br />
the inside temperature<br />
lower than the outside.<br />
Plants unable to stand full<br />
hot sun can be placed under<br />
benches for shade or string<br />
up some shade cloth over<br />
the sun-sensitive plants.<br />
Now only<br />
$35.80<br />
Plus $5 P&H per copy<br />
VERSATILE:<br />
A glasshouse<br />
will present<br />
you with<br />
many plant<br />
growing<br />
options.<br />
Many gardeners have an<br />
earth floor in their glasshouses<br />
so they can grow<br />
directly into the earth. Soil<br />
can harbour diseases which<br />
will likely effect plants, so<br />
be careful.<br />
Opt for a concrete floor<br />
and grow all plants in<br />
containers. This makes it<br />
easy to remove a plant if it<br />
becomes diseased.<br />
On hot sunny days you<br />
can wet the concrete and<br />
the evaporation will cool<br />
the glasshouse. If you are<br />
unable to lay a concrete<br />
floor then place weed mat<br />
over the soil and cover<br />
with pea metal, several<br />
centimetres thick.<br />
Use your outdoor living areas<br />
all year round<br />
• Warm & dry in winter<br />
• UV protection for summer<br />
• Stylish & permanent<br />
• 5 year warranty<br />
“AS SEEN ON TV”<br />
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