PLANTING CABBAGES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1324, 14 April 1877, Page 18

PLANTING CABBAGES.

Another batch of summer * Cabbages 1 should now be planted ; it is a'much'better practice to plant twicej at , intervals rof about a month, than to make only, one planting. If all goes well with those that we're put out -the earliest,, they will-- 'be considerably in advance of such as 'are' planted now, and it is desirable' to '.try to have some ready ,as soon as.' possible, in spring, otherwise there will be a, blank between the late Greens andthe.firsif Cabbages. -There is, besides; another contingency, to guard against— tWearliest- : planted :Cabbage3 take hold' of -the^soiL; and commence growth whilst , there; ista good, deal of heat in the earth, and,, also, in: the air; -this makes them grow freely^ and, in this state, they are liable to'sfciffer should asevere winter follow! 1 Thesejfcnd batch put in, although : they .will Hie a fortnight later in the spring after a mild winter, are much better able to resist 'the 1 effects of a severe winter of long duration, or the more trying vicissitudes "of vege-, table life— alternate froat and thaw. When these occur, it frequently happens that: few of the first crop of Cabbages escape ; whereas such as were planted somewhat' later suffer comparatively little. / ;'" '-\ -