Vegetables
Plant out cabbages'and cauliflowers. Plant shallots, potato onions, and tree onions. Plant out early sown onions. They want a well-manured soil, a firm soil, and good drainage. Plant the roots only. Run the rows about 15in. apart, with the plant sin. apart in the rows. Sow broad beans, cabbages and early peas. Plant a few early potatoes jn a warm, sheltered, well drained position; and plant only sprouted tubers. Keep the onion bed clean. Give an occasional dusting with wood-ashes. Plant rhubarb roots in well-drained well manured soil. Prepare new asparagus beds. Give temporary stakes to peas as soon ns they come through. Plant out herbsY thyme, sage, etc. Divide old clumps. Make a sowing of round spinach. Plant fruit trees of all kinds. Plant, firmly, and give any amount of root room with good drainage. Complete strawberry planting.
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Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 2
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140Vegetables Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 2
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