TABLE FOR SEED SOWING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

TABLE FOR SEED SOWING

HOW MUCH SEED TO SOW Quantities per Row. Beans, Broad Windsor.—Half a pint will sow a 25ft row. Beans, Long Pod. —Half a pint will sow a 35ft row. Beans, Dwarf French or Kidney.— Half a pint will sow a 35ft row. Beans, Runner.—Sow in lines, seeds six inches apart (usually a double line to the row). Beetroot.—Half an ounce of seed will sow a 25ft row. Brocoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbages, Cauliflowers, etc. —Half an ounce of seed will sow three square yards of seed-bed, the seedlings to be transplanted ' at least two feet apart each way.

Carrot. —One ounce of seed will sow a 100 ft row. Carrot seed should always be mixed with sand before sowing.

Celery.—Half a n ounce of seed is ample for a 50f1. .double or a 100 ft single row*. Cress.—Half an ounce of seed will sow a 50ft drill.

Cucumber.—This is usually so*” 11 singly in small pots or an inch and ahalf apart in pans. ... Leek. —Half an ounce of seed Win sow a 50ft row. Lettuce. —Half an ounce of seed ww sow a 60ft row. Onion. —Same as leeks. ~ Parsley.—Half an ounce of seed wiu sow a 40ft row. . . * Peas.—On good ground, one P inl seed will sow a 75ft row. Peas usually sown much too thickly. Potatoes.—Reckon 11 to 121 b or tubers to the rod of ground (30* so ll yards). wi n Radish. —Half an ounce of seed sow a seed bed o c three square Tomato.—Seeds should be sown least an inch apart in pots, P J - n boxes. . Turnip.—Half an ounce of seen » sow an 80ft row. ..-a Vegetable Marrow. —The Sl7ia . n j packet of these, and of tomato cucumber seed, will usually suffic ' .. the requirements of the average * teur gardener. To get early P J _* vegetable marrow seeds require warmth, either of hot water or ma A half-dozen plants will suffice to average small garden.