An Underground Vegetable Garden.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1914, Page 4

An Undergro und Vegetable Garden.

In Springfield, America, is ,i wonderful cave garden while ltuishroonis, rhubarb and other vegetables are grown at a depth of To feel underground. The cave can only be reached by boat. For this purpose a special boat has been built, and at the mouth of the river is a wfiarf where the boat can be moored when not in use

\o one believes that rhubarb, an out-door vegetable, could he grown in the dark so many feet underground, but the rapidity of the plant's growth is remarkable, 'i h< rhubarb is in the first instance planted outside, beimr 11 a!t 11 la nt <•< I into the cave when the roots have had a fair start.

Mushrooms are produced in the proportions of 21b to a square fool in each crop, and there arc three cI ops every year. _ The cave is also utilised as a storage place for all kinds of vegetables, (lie farmoin for twenty miles around briniring their potatoes for storage there. fVlpry i s f ,| so Kleaehed in large quantities.

One advantage of Hi is underground garden lies in the fact that throughout the year an even temperature is preserved, the extremes of heat and cohl prevail,',,- r,bowptouihl not beitie' f P | ( iance below the surface.