Plants for Next Spring

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 38, 1 April 1884, Page 3

Plants for Next Spring

« ■ ■ ■ Those who are not versed in tlie ways of market-gardeners, are not aware t,hit the seeds for the early crop of cabbages, cauliflowers, and lettuce, are sown in autumn. The plants, protected through- the winter in cold frames, are s^t out v ry early the following" spring. It is useless for one to expect to haye these vegetables early in the market, unless he adopts the method that years of experience has shown to be the safe one. The seeds are sown in autumn in thu open ground; the young plants, grown -to the proper size, are plauted out in cold frames, where they are kept dormant, and at the same time protected from severe changes of temperature They are set out vory early the following spring. 'I he-time for sowing the BeeJs to produce plants which are to be wintered, is of great importance. If stiwn too soon, the iiluiits will be too large, and if too late, they will not be strong ei.ouerh. Of course, the time of sowing must vary with each locality, the object b-^ing to have strong plants, ready for the cold frnmes, in lour or five week 3 after r,he seeds are sown. Farmers ai.d others, who wish to have the earliest cabbages for market, should adopt this uinthod Sow the seeds this month ; prick out the young plants next m nth into cold frames, and keep them dormant through 'ho winter, until they c;iu be set out next spring. — American Agriculturist.