. All about sweet peas. Sweet peas. 88 ALL ABOUT SWEET PEAS. the soil from the very beginning. If you have only a yard filled in with coal ashes and tin cans, you may smile at the difficulties and have the finest of flowers. You can always dig a trench, and put into it just the right compost and soil. Especially with Sweet Peas,. Where the garden soil is already rich enough, hoe out double furrows like this. Cover seed one or two inches at first. After they are up fill in till ground is nearly level. Do not cover crowns of plants. where only a narrow strip wide enough for a row is wanted, is t
. All about sweet peas. Sweet peas. 88 ALL ABOUT SWEET PEAS. the soil from the very beginning. If you have only a yard filled in with coal ashes and tin cans, you may smile at the difficulties and have the finest of flowers. You can always dig a trench, and put into it just the right compost and soil. Especially with Sweet Peas,. Where the garden soil is already rich enough, hoe out double furrows like this. Cover seed one or two inches at first. After they are up fill in till ground is nearly level. Do not cover crowns of plants. where only a narrow strip wide enough for a row is wanted, is this easily done. If you have the sunshine and a place to dig, you may supply the rest perfectly. Now, while a soil inclining to clay is more natural to this flower, and makes success easier, still, it is not. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hutchins, W. T. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, W. A. Burpee & co.
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