BORECOLE OR CURLED GREENS.
These connect the Brussels Sprouts with the Cabbage. The tops may be used at any time during the winter; but the Sprouts come into use during. March arid April. We have no winter, Green^ore generally cultivated among cottagK^ in country places than this. It will succeed in any ordinary garden soil, with a little manure ; and one' sowing will be found ample for most gardens, be the demand what it may. The seed should be. sown early in March. The plants may bo finally planted" in rows two feet apart, and about sixteen inches asunder in the rows. These, as well as ; all. the, others, are much improved by being pricked out — that is, transplanted when -they are small. Thus treated, they, produce finer heads "with shorter .stems than they otherwise would do, arid are less liable to be injured by wind, besides being more productive and more economical as regards space.- -The Garden.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1355, 17 November 1877, Page 18
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158BORECOLE OR CURLED GREENS. Otago Witness, Issue 1355, 17 November 1877, Page 18
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