PRICKLY SPINACH
The prickly-seeded spinach is a good autumn vegetable and seed should be sown now. ~ . ~ .. . ' . , . Sown from ground from which a crop of peas or potatoes has been taken and it will require no further preparation than levelling off with the rake. The drills should, be drawn a foot apart and one inch deep. Soak the seed in water for two or three hours before sowing to hasten germination. If the soil is very dry it is as^ell to water thoroughly twenty-four hours before sowing, but the covering soil >. should -be dry, or it will cake hard and make it impossible for the seedlings'to push through. Sow very thinly, and then out to from 6 to 8 inches>apart. A small patch will pay for.: sowing, as so little preparation of the soil is requirec Crowding the plants is most undesirable, and large thick leaves, that are worth while can only be obtained by allowing each plant plenty of space. Supply water when necessary and to hasten growth give an application of nitrate of soda a fortnight or so after tWe seedlings are through the ground.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 26
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186PRICKLY SPINACH Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 26
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