Gardening
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Ministry of Agriculture Allotment &
Garden Guide
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September 1945
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MARROWS &
RIDGE CUCUMBERS |
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PARSLEY "TIP" |
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the fruit intended for seed on the plant until it is fully ripe. The seed
should be removed by hand, washed to remove the surrounding pulp and dried
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You may now find your spring-sown parsley running to seed, some
of it in full flower. These flower stems will exhaust the plant. So your
best plan is to cut down the plants almost to ground level and give them a
little fertiliser and some water. By this means you can have fine parsley
all through the winter. |
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Those SPRING CABBAGES |
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Thinking about next year brings us to the
need for adequate supplies of winter greens. September is the month for
planting out spring cabbages, and every available piece of ground should be
devoted to this valuable vitamin-giving vegetable. When the onions have been
removed and the ground has been lightly hoed, dusted with lime and well
raked, spring cabbages may be planted in rows 1 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. apart,
allowing 1 ft. between each plant. This is somewhat closer then is usually
recommended for spring cabbages; but as the cabbages grow in the spring each
alternate plant may be cut and used as spring greens, leaving the remaining
plants ample room to develop into fine-hearting specimens for cutting in May
and early June.
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Any surplus seedlings
remaining in the seed beds should be thinned out to 2 or 3 in. apart, to
form a reserve store that may be planted out on vacant ground next March or
April, so providing a succession to those planted out this autumn. These
later plants come into bearing when the main crop is finished and provide
useful cabbages in early summer.
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What
about TURNIP TOPS? |
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At this time of the year, it is well worth
while to sow a row or two of turnips, not with the idea of producing roots,
but to get a supply of green tops for use next spring. The seeds should be
sown very thinly in rows 1 ft. apart. When the seedlings appear, thin fairly
lightly in the early stages, as the plants have to undergo the winter and
bad weather and pests may make inroads on them.
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Later on they may be
thinned again, as the plants require more room to develop. The variety Green
Top Stone is very suitable for sowing to produce a supply of tasty, green
leaves that will be valuable as an extra green crop in the difficult month
of April. |
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BEET
"tip" Look at a
sample root or two in your beet rows. You may find that some are getting old
and "ringy." If you sowed the seeds early in the year, it is quite possible
that the beet are ready for lifting and would be much better lifted now and
stored in damp sand or soil in an odd corner outdoors. The main crop should
still be growing well at the moment, but some earlier roots may go past
their best if left in the ground any longer. |
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