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Parsley |
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Parsley: This very
easily grown little plant should have at least a row or
two in the seed-bed devoted to it. For use during
winter, a box or a few pots may be filled with cut-back
roots and given moderate temperature and moisture. If no
frames are on hand, the plants usually will do well in a
sunny window.
Parsley seed is particularly slow in germinating. Use a
few seeds of turnip or carrot to indicate the rows, and
have the bed very finely prepared. |
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Rhubarb |
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Rhubarb: This is another of the standard
vegetables which no home garden should be without. For
the bed pick out a spot where the roots can stay without
interfering with the plowing and working of the
garden--next the asparagus bed, if in a good early
location, will be as good as any. One short row will
supply a large family. The bed is set either with roots
or young plants, the former being the usual method. The
ground should first be made as deep and rich as
possible. If poor, dig out the rows, which should be
four or five feet apart, to a depth of two feet or more
and work in a foot of good manure, refilling with the
best of the soil excavated. Set the roots about four
feet apart in the row, the crowns being about four
inches below the surface. No stalks should be cut the
first season; after that they will bear abundantly many
years.
In starting from seed, sow in March in frames or outside
in April; when well along-about the first of June--set
out in rows, eighteen by twelve inches. By the following
April they will be ready for their permanent position. |
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Spinach |
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Spinach: For the first
spring crop of this good and wholesome vegetable, the
seed is sown in September, and carried over with a
protection of hay or other rough litter. Crops for
summer and fall are sown in successive plantings from
April on, Long-Standing being the best sort to sow after
about May 15th. Seed of the New Zealand spinach should
be soaked several hours in hot water, before being
planted.
For the home garden, I believe that the Swiss chard beet
is destined to be more popular, as it becomes known,
than any of the spinaches. It is sown in plantings from
April on, but will yield leaves all season long; they
are cut close to the soil, and in an almost incredibly
short time the roots have thrown up a new crop, the
amount taken during the season being wonderful.
Spinach wants a strong and very rich soil, and dressings
of nitrate show good results. |
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