The Vegetable Garden

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28767, 12 December 1958, Page 16

The Vegetable Garden

It is; about time to discontinue cutting asparagus. Weed the bed before the top* grow up to hide th* weeds. Later, stakes should be placed round the bed to secure th* top* from storm damage. Celery trenches are best prepared in advance, using compost, old manure or stack bottom to dig well into the trench. Just Alling the trench with any thick deposit of these materials is not

likely to give the celery plants a good run. Feas can be sown for summer use. Where staking is no bother, maincrop varieties like Greenfeast, Onward or Stratagem will give heavy crops of big pods, but easier managed sorts such as English Wonder, Earlicrop, Massey or Blue Bantam can also be recommended.

There is still time to plant pumpkin. vegetable marrow, lettuce and cabbage plants, and to sow many of the successional crops like silver beet, spinach, endive, parsnip, carrot, red beet, golden ball turnip, swede and salsify.

Prepare ground for planting out winter cabbage, savoy, kale, sprout*, broccoli, celeriac, drumhead cabbage, kohlrabi, etc. Growing potatoes should be well earthed up, spreading some fertiliser along the row to be handy to the root*. Thin off growing shoots from tomato plants and fasten main stem to stake.