VEGETABLE CROPS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

VEGETABLE CROPS

WORK OF THE MONTH. Suck hardy varieties as cabbage, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts, leeks, spinach. carrots, parsnips, turnip, celery, etc., are among the most useful and appreciated of winter crops. When care has been taken with late summer and autumn sowing and planting, useful crops cun be maintained until spring and summer crops come in. Peas are among the most popular of early summer vegetables, and in ordinary seasons the earliest sowings should by this time be well above the ground. In seasons such as the present, however, even if they have been successfully raised they have had little chance to succeed. As soon as the weather is suitable well manure and prepare a plot in a warm, sheltered situation for furrhe- sowings, for although the pea is not as tender a subject as many imagine they rarely succeed when sown in cold, uncongenial soil. French and butte.- beans come next in the order of m< in These, however, are much more tender subjects than peas and need an abundance of warmth in the soil to succeed, so that little, if anything, will be gained by sowing these until well into next month, and even then the warmest and most sheltered situation must be selected for sow ing. in sowing early crops so much depei ds upon the soil, locality and the varieties to be sown that discretion must in every case be exercised. Much, toe, depends upon the condition of the soil at the time of sowing. For earlv crops, especially the soil cannot j».placed in too good condition, for when deeply and well worked excess of mobture is more quickly disposed of. \ few line days drying the soil is necessary to enable sowing ana planting to be successfully- carried on.