VEGETABLE SOWING.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 26

VEGETABLE SOWING.

All the following vegetable seeds may be sown now when the ground is m suitable condition :-Peas, broad beans carrots, parsnips, silver beet, radish, lettuces, and mustard and cress. Onions tor a supply of spring onions for salads may be sown, but it is rather late to sow for large onions for keeping. Sow the seed thinly broadcast on very rich soil, thinning ■»s required for use. Potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, autumn-sown onions, and silver beet may be planted now. It is always better to have the seed potatoes sprouted, which should be done by placing the seed tubers in trays, eyes upwards, m a light, airy shed or under.a verandah. When sprouted in bags or in the shade the sprouts become long and drawn. The ideal to aim at is short, eturdy, green shoots. . Peas should be sown for successional crops in quantities which will supply requirements so that they may bo used ■while quite young. To attain this result, Bowings should be made as soon as the previous lot are showing through the ground. It is necessary to protect peas from birds by means of black cotton, or other device, and from slugs by applications of lime, soot, or powdered alum sprinkled along the rows. Draw the soil up round cabbage and cauliflower, applying some nitrate of soda before earthing up. Earthing up peas and broad beans is also a good practice, while supports should be supplied to peas, even the dwarf varieties being better when kept off the ground.