Vegetables.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8290, 3 November 1905, Page 3

Vegetables.

There is still time to sow tomatoes. A good plan is to sow a few seeds in patches, two feet apart, and, when growing, select a strong plant and tie it to a stake, three or four feet high, and train it to one stem. If the ground is rich, they will come on very quickly, and will often beat those sown earlier and transplanted. This method of sowing seed, where they are to stand, can also be carried out with good results witli all the broccoli and cauliflowers, leeks, Scotch and other kales ; and, if a trench is dug, and prepared as for celery, excellent results may be obtained. A most useful broccoli—not often seen in the Colonies—is the Purple Sprouting, a few of which should be in every garden. If the plan of sowing in beds to transplant is followed, a good sprinkling of coal or coke ashes, a quarter of an inch thick, will keep the ground from baking or cracking. Coke ashes are used to prevent that scourge of the cabbage tribe —the club—a terrible disease which, I learn with regret, has found its way into the

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