VEGETABLE GARDEN.
.Every effort should be made to stock the garden with all seasonable vegetables. .Sow in suitable quantities peas, broad beans, turnips, carrots, parsnips, spinach, beet, onions, leeks, radish, lettuce, and parsley. Early staking of peas is important.. The plants develop more rapidly after they have support. ..--.. Tomatoes which were raised under glass should be hardened off before beinj; planted outside. . . Never sow seeds when tho soil is so wet as to be sticky. Where it is necessary to work on fairly wet ground put down a board to stand on. ■ . . . -. . '• ; . ■■ Earth up cabbages, cauliflowers, and peas, also potatoes. ; Keep the soil loose between the rows, and keep down weeds. ■ Water if the, weather is very-dry, but avoid, this.until really necessary. ■■'''. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 20
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122VEGETABLE GARDEN. Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 20
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