VEGETABLES.
Broad beans are growing with amazing rapidity. They must be carefully staked as they grow, or they will ba blown down on to neighbouring crops, of lettuces, carrots, oto. Already tho broad beans are high enough to 'form a nice shelter for tho radishes, lettuces, carrots, and turnips that are coming along. Silver beet must bo kopt growing quickly. All greens are nicest when they have been grown quickly. Cut the largo outside leaves for use." Keep tho plants woll weeded, and diligently hoed. During winter hoeing on ivarra sunny mornings is most boneficial for all growing crops. Sprinkle nitrate of soda .-.long the rows of silver boet once a fortnight, 'This will bo dissolved by rain or hoed in. CAPE GOOSEBERRIES. Cape gooseberry bushes that havo been blackened by frost, should bo cut down to within a foot of the ground, ond the roots covered with a good mulch of wellrotted animal manure, or a mulch of dooayed vegetable rubbish. Do not dig round the bushes bofore applying tho mulch. Garden notes next weok will contain seasonable notea about flowering shrubs, Christmas roses, chrysanthemums, and vegetables.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 15
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188VEGETABLES. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 15
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