GENERAL NOTES.

Northern Advocate, 21 October 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NOTES.

Sow beans of all sorts, beet, broccoli, cabbage, celery, cress, peas, radish, lettuce, tomatoes, turnips, parsnips.

Plant icaibibage, cauliflower, leeks, lettuce, onions, potatoes, etc.

Stake the peas and earth up the potatoes you have put in earlier.

Some folk make a practice of putting in a few peas every fortnight for successional crops. Try it if you have the ground 1 . There's no nicer vegetable than young peas.

Marrows, pumpkins, and melons may be sown now, but it is risky; as apparently we are not yet iclear of frosts.

'Chip over the cabbage rows, and see ithiat the young lettuce plants have a fair nun.

Thin out the onion, carrot and parsnip Ibeds.

Pliant seedling tomatoes against a fence or wall.

Red (beet seedlings are ever ia good line. Plant close arid force ithe pace.

For winter ■cabbage and savoys sow early in December.

Brussels sprouts should also be sown this imonth. They require a long season of growth. Plant the seedlings out in firm, rich ground as soon as large enough. Plenty of room must be allowed for development, or 'th 6 sprouts will be loose leaved, and open./ It is the most delicately flavoured 1 of igreen winter vegetables, but in this iCilimate is' not very reliable.

Celery should be sown for the main crop. Where there is a frame or green house, sowing should be in iboxes; at thisttiem c 'Of the year iseed usually comes quite freely in the open ground which suits those who have not the advantages mentioned.

Cabbages can be planted a foot apart, half the crop can be used before full development is reached, cutting alternate plants as soon as they are a serviceable size; this will give almost a double crop.

A few seeds of letfuce should be sown 'occasionally, so as to keep a small reserve of plants always ready for planting; then when a head is out, pull out the stump and stick another in; this will save a lot of waste from idle 'ground. A similar plan can be adopted with other things.