CHIVES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 28

CHIVES

USEFUL SPRING ONIONS This useful vegetable is . a hardy perennial, cultivated for its oniou-like leaves, which are used for salads and soups instead of young onions. They will grow in almost any soil, increasing rapidly, and can be divided in autumn and spring into little tufts, and replanted out. Set the plants six inches apart, in rows 12 inches between. The plants will then form large tufts of leaves, which should be continuously cut. Keep the soil well hoed between the rows, applying blood and bone and superphosphate in moderate dimensions. Lift, and replant in new soil, every three or four years.

A TIP FOR THE COOK Most gardeners, sooner or later, are faced with, the problem of what to do with a batch of lettuces which have prematurely gone to seed. Usually they are either fed to the fowls or relegated to the rubbish heap. Both admirable ways of getting rid of them, but there is a better —cook them. It is not at all commonly known how good the leaves of lettuce are when cooked like spinach. They should stew very slowly, but personally I boil them in just sufficient water to prevent them catching, strain off in a colander, press all the water out as far as possible and return to the saucepan in which they were boiled, add a nice piec eof margarine and a little pepper and heat for a few minutes. Do not take any of the stalks,