VEGETABLE GARDEN
While favourable conditions continue every effort should be made to dig over all plots required for spring" sowing or planting. Any seedling crops which may be coming on should be thinned and weeded and whenever the soil is fit to work the ground between the rows should be loosened up. Dustings of soot over and around seedling crops will keep insects away. . For sowing at this season it is an advantage if seed beds are raised a few inches. Such beds have better drainage and are consequently wanner. Broad beans, early peas, and onions may be sown, and cabbages, cauliflowers, lettuces, and autumn-sown onions may be planted. Chives, shallots, tree and potato onions may also be planted now. Continue to plant fruit trees and bushes, also rhubarb.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 19
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129VEGETABLE GARDEN Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 19
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