THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 14

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

One of the most important jobs in the kitchen garden is the setting of onion seedlings. The ground should be well dug and manured before planting. Set the plants about nine inches apart and 12 to 15 inches between the rows. This will allow room for a small hoe to be worked among the plants. Potash is an important food of the onion crop, and supplies should be incorporated in the soil. Tomato seed my be sown in boxes for gardeners who prefer to raise their own plants. Sow the seed thinly in sandy soil and cover ligktly, pressmg the surface firm with a board or leveller. Small smootk varieties are Carters Sunrise and Holmes Supreme. Large varieties are Kiondihe Red and Market Favourite. One packet of seed will raise 250 plants. Plant early potatoes at o'nce. Set articliokes in any corner that cannot be used for growing good crops. Prepare beds for a later sowing of pumpkins and cucumbers. The following roob crops may be set : Beet, carrots, swedes, turnips and onions. For salad crops soxv now lettuce, mustard, cress, spring onions and endice and spinach. For spring transplanting sow cabbage, cauliflower, parsley, silver beet and leeks.