In the Vegetable Garden.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3067, 12 January 1894, Page 7

In the Vegetable Garden.

When .there is plenty of ground, plant •eparagns in rows three feet apart, the plants nine inches apart in the rows. Ton cannot afford to plant potatoes with deep eyes either for home use <* for mari#. The custom of '^hilling up** corn and potatoes is no longer practiced by progressive farmers. -: : ? ; : ; ; Where good wood ashes are cheap farmers have little need of chemical fertilizers. ■■-*•—*■■■- "•■•■"- -■ I At the lowa experiment station carrots haiilproviii jbe besfrjr<ip|s for norses and the only ones that horses will readily e»t^ r _ __„ _,^, . . ! A cpweiwmdent in The Farm Joornal m^h^Stf b© wWth while to take the Irooble to brtiah peas for the sakeof haying some really good ones like the old Champion of England or the Telephone. The brash should be 5 feet tall for the former antl 4 feet for the latter." Horseradish, wnich ir appetiiinjgand wholesome, can be had for years from j one planting. , ! Set out the caaMoower pla^i and activate same as cabbages, except to give extra manure and plenty of water . r The Bural New Yorker says * that ««m ftftyyiiw fa thf bill is sure to giTe snail tomatoes; therefore it is advised to broeAcastfertiHxers for tomatoes."

Snbscribers will please leave word at the office, should they not receive their paper woj§ r !j. wwJ the craiaaon wU beSm^JMriy r^afiei j