LETTUCES
To get good lettuces during the summer months seed should be sown or the plants set out on soil which does not dry out quickly and which contains a fair amount .of nourishment. Should the soil be of a light, porous nature, plenty of cow or farmyard manure should be added, or, failing this, utilise garden refuse, lawn clippings, weeds, leaves, etc. The beds should be frequently watered and hoed. In ordinary soils lettuces will grow readily with no other help than that of a good complete fertiliser. Although most crops do best when sown on a firm seed bed. the reverse is the case with lettuces, because the plants invariably do best in a loose medium. Heavy land should be hoed frequently for tha + reason, and care taken not to consolidate it either before or after sowing. Bad germination so often complained of is due in most instances to failure to work the soil into a' fine tilth before the seed is sown.
During warm weather it will be found preferable to sow the seed very thinly in rows where the plants are to grow, thinning the seedlings to eight inches apart. Nitrate of soda is a good stimulant for lettuces.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 30
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203LETTUCES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 30
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