THE WEEK'S WORK THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
Make fortnightly sowings of peas to ensure a succession. Earth up those which are ready for staking before putting in the stakes. • - Make further sowings of beans, parsnips, carrots, spinach, red beet, and lettuces. , .___•_*_. Earth up potatoes as they grow. This acts as a wonderful protection for the plants and encourages the formation of tubers. Cabbages and cauliflowers benefit from earthing up also. Give a sprinkling of nitrate of soda along the rows before drawing up the Thin out seedling crops while they are quite small, A good watering given a little while before thinning will enable the surplus plants to be lifted with a minimum of damage to those remaining. Plant tomatoes in sheltered positions in warm localities. ■ If the young plants are sheltered for the first week or two after planting there will be less danger of them being killed by a cold snap. French and butter beans may be sown but with these again sowing is best delayed till the end of the month except in the warmest parts. Keep up a succession of lettuces and radishes by sowing small quantities, say every fortnight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 29
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193THE WEEK'S WORK THE VEGETABLE GARDEN Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 29
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