WORK IN VEGETABLE GARDEN
Sow more peas. Select the richest and sunniest spot in the garden. Peas have to grow during the coldest time of the year. Plant out more cabbage and cauliflower, and feed the plants that are growing with weak liquid manure. Keep down the weeds. Try mulching the cabbage rows with old manure. Good food makes a lot of difference to cabbage and cauliflower. Lettuce should be one of the speoial seed sowings of the month. Any variety will do now. Heading sorts pay best. Mulch the bed, and quicken the pace with liquid manure made from nitrate of soda, hen manure, sulphate of amonia, or anything else that has a bite in it. Green spinach is a good line for handling now. Bed out seedlings at 12in apart in rows that will give you room to do the weeding. Chinese cabbage should be given a try-out. Sow seed now and transplant the seedlings as you do beets or lettuce. As the growth Is more upright than cabbage closer planting can be done.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 38
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