BEET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

BEET.

FILL IN SPACES,

So-called beet seed is rot a seed at all, but a fruit; that is to say, inside each of the wrinkled fruits there are three or four little brown seeds. This accounts for the fact that when beet "seed" is sown it is no unusual thin to find three or four seedlings almost

clin r, 'in rT to each other. The same thing appfics°to marigolds. Usually there are sufficient seedlings to give a good row, but, if not, you can transplant the seedlings to the vacant places. Transplant when seedlings have made one rough loaf. Lift carefully, so as not to damage, the long roots. Before planting stir tho soil well, make a hole with the dibber, fill tho hole with water, and then plant tho beet seedling, working in sonic fine soil to make it firm. If the sun is very hot, shade with a twig of macrocarpa or such like.