Dreer's Open-air vegetables (1897) Dreer's Open-air vegetables . dreersopenairveg00dree Year: 1897 88 DREER S OPEN-AIR VEGETABLES. manured the previous season ; ground hoed and raked, but not dug for the Broccoli. The object is to discourage rank growth at first, and to produce dwarf, stocky plants. Broc- coli can be kept over winter under a thatch of corn stalks. Mr. Gaynor prefers the White Cape variety. Light ground must be avoided. The seed is sown the same time as winter cabbage, say May lo to 20. BRUSSELS SPROUTS. This vegetable is a cabbage in fact, but produces many heads in- stead of
Dreer's Open-air vegetables (1897) Dreer's Open-air vegetables . dreersopenairveg00dree Year: 1897 88 DREER S OPEN-AIR VEGETABLES. manured the previous season ; ground hoed and raked, but not dug for the Broccoli. The object is to discourage rank growth at first, and to produce dwarf, stocky plants. Broc- coli can be kept over winter under a thatch of corn stalks. Mr. Gaynor prefers the White Cape variety. Light ground must be avoided. The seed is sown the same time as winter cabbage, say May lo to 20. BRUSSELS SPROUTS. This vegetable is a cabbage in fact, but produces many heads in- stead of only one. In the axil of each stem leaf a little 'head' the size of a walnut makes its appear- ance, and these heads or '' sprouts'' are of excellent flavor. They are sold by measure in the autumn and winter markets. John Gaynor, heretofore quoted, sows seeds of Brussels Sprouts in April, in the open air, in rows where the plants are to remain. They may be transplanted when small, while in the rough or second leaf; but transplanting tends to make them with stems that are too long. The feet apart and the plants 18 inches apart in the rows, in deep, mellow ground highly manured the previous year, but not freshly manured nor plowed just prior to planting the 'sprouts.' Top growth is to be dis- couraged. A stocky, well-set plant is desirable ; a plant not over 2 or 2>^ feet in height. If set in soft ground and treated like cabbage the stem growth is excessive. Firm or even hard ground is preferable, if deep and in good heart. The plants may be hoed after setting. BRUSSELS SPROUTS too 'leggy ;' that is, rows should be 2]
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