SOWING SEEDS IN BOXES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 9

SOWING SEEDS IN BOXES

Now is the time for sowing seeds of many vegetables and flowers in pots, pans, or boxes, in order to haye sturdy plants for trangplanting at a suitable opportunity. "A "flat" fruit oas« on its side makep an excellent seed box. In the bottom of the box bore holes to provide for drainage, then plaoe a layer of crock (pieces pf broken pots), pebbles or pieces of charcoal, then flll th© box with nice, friable, sandy loam, liberally mxxed witb leaf mpuld. Beayy or elayoy soil should not be used. Make the soil in th© box moderately tirm, and give it a soakjng. No seedg should be sowu moreythan an iuch deep ; in fagt, most fiower seeds Jeed to be planted one quarter of ai. inch iu the soil. Fine seed, suoh as iobelia, musk, £orget-me-not, need uo eovering ; they should simply be pressed into the soil after mlxing with a

littl© fine soxl to secur© more eyen dxstribution. F.Iower seeds which may be sown now jnolude antirrlunum (enapdragon), oineraria, qandytuft, godetia, nasturtium, sweet peas, geum, pansy, alyssum, delphinium, ete. Attention should also be paid to the sowing in boxes of vegetable seeds, including cabbage, caulifiower, lettuce, beet kohi rabbi. With regard to lettuce, the most useful variefcieB for present planting are lceburg and Neapolitan.

By growing seed in boxes the growing conaitions are under control, as on hot days tbe boxes can be kept in a shaded place. If you have a gardeu frome covered witb glass or calico, so much the better.