THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 236, 18 September 1936, Page 13

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

September month finds the kitchen garden ready for planting. Where space is limited the aim of every household should be to grow only the most profitable of vegetables. To do this we must pick out the crops that give a quich return to enable us to use the ground several times.

All quick-growing root crops can be sown—carrots, beet, radishes, parsnips and turnips. Plants of cabbage, cauliflower, onions, and lettuce can be transplanted in rows. Seeds of spring onions, leeks, mustard and cress and endive should be sown for salad use.

Sowings of dwarf peas in a small garden is recommended. William Hurst or American Wonder are the earliest. Stratagem and Greenfeast are two good main crop varieties. The pods from the dwarf peas are equally as good as those from their taller brothers and the labour of staking is saved.

Ground should be prepared and enriched for the sowings of cucumber, marrow and pumpkin seeds which may take place next month. Sweet corn is a delicacy worth cultivation and can bo grown to till up some ugly corner. Onion plants that have been transplanted some time should be hoed between, care being taken not to damage the young plants. Lift and divide old mint roots, discarding surplus. thus making more room for the roots to obtain food to produce good foliage.

Seeds of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, red pickling cabbage and borecole or curly greens should be sown in beds to provide sturdy plants fo next winter’s use. Tomato seeds are quickly germinated when sown in a box of lino soil and certainly much cheaper than buying plant*-