VEGETABLE GARDEN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14072, 17 June 1911, Page 7

VEGETABLE GARDEN.

Vegetables are becoming very scarce. Thoso people who aro favoured with a warm situation should prepare early sowings of all kinds. In such soils where peas and beans havo been sown, cultivation should bo carried on, otherwise no advantage -will bo gained by the early sowing. It will be found that after a heavy rain tho surface of the ground becomes firm ami caked. This excludes the air and light, and plants become stunted in consequence. 13y working the surface of tho soil regularly (only whon dry, however), it will bo found that the plants become active, and soon show the stimulating effects of such a practice. Later in the season, when tho spring advances, thevaluo of such work will l>o evidenced by strong growth, and later hy prolific crops. Plots of ground which are lying idle at present should be dug over two or throe times during tho winter to allow the frost , to work". . No cultivation in. the world can break v- soil like tJio frost. Such pulverising is much to bo preferred to tho addition of mannro in so-mo eoita, .particularly those which are heavy in character.