BLANCHING CELERY
m IT MAY BE DONE Where the celery has been grown in trenches the side shoots and -dead leaves should be removed} the trenches generally watered, and any nitrate of soda or other manures required applied. When the plants are dry they should', be lightly tied, and soil, well pulverised, should he filled in around them to a depth ot lour or five inches. The moulding up is completed in two more operations of this kind, performed ‘in dry weather at intervals of about a fortnight. Kor self-blanching rarieties'jgrown in blocks on the flat in moist ground, it is necessary only to place 12in boards on edge close up around the sides of the block to blanch the sticks effectively#
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Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 3
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122BLANCHING CELERY Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 3
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