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Ministry of Agriculture Allotment &
Garden Guide
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facsimile of
page 5 July 1945
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Sow for succession
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Sow lettuce every 10 or 14 days. And while you are about it,
don't forget to make another sowing of parsley, for the experts tell
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don't eat nearly enough for our health's sake. Drills should be 1/2 in.
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Sowing SPRING CABBAGE
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Of
all early vegetables we look forward with most pleasure, perhaps, to our
first cutting of spring cabbage. There is a delicacy, texture and flavour
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At the end of the month sow the seeds. Instead of sowing in a drill, try for
once sowing broadcast on a small plot. Some people think you get far better
plants that way. The seeds are sometimes sown far too thickly in drills and
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Don't waste that
SUMMER WASTE
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At
this time of year garden "waste" is generally fairly plentiful and should
not be wasted. Pea stems, potato haulms, outside lettuce leaves, the last of
the rough leaves from spring cabbage, grass cuttings and the like should be
made into compost, which, later on, you will dig back into your soil to
maintain its fertility. How to make a compost heap was described in the
March Guide. |
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There are some people who seem to think that the compost heap
is a new idea, introduced because farmyard manure is hard to come by. It is
no novelty, for the gardening books of a century or more ago mentioned it;
long before it was called "compost" the value of decayed vegetable refuse
was well known and understood, particularly by the professional gardener.
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CARROTS
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*If you would like
to experiment with carrots, try sowing the seed broadcast in a broad flat
drill 1 in. deep, instead of in the usual narrow drill. |
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Late-sown carrots usually escape the attention of the carrot fly.
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