. Gardening for all. A handbook on growing vegetables and fruit, and the prevention & destruction of insect pests of the garden, ... Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture; Garden pests. 34 Gardening for All. THINNING CROPS. All plants, whether oak trees or cabbages, require a certain amount of food and space for development. Seedling crops must be thinned timely and properly if good results are expected of them. " Sow thickly and thin quickly " is an old garden ^t ]ir»&>&< maxim, but we must avoid sow- ing too thickly, which is a great evil. Onions, carrots, turni
. Gardening for all. A handbook on growing vegetables and fruit, and the prevention & destruction of insect pests of the garden, ... Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture; Garden pests. 34 Gardening for All. THINNING CROPS. All plants, whether oak trees or cabbages, require a certain amount of food and space for development. Seedling crops must be thinned timely and properly if good results are expected of them. " Sow thickly and thin quickly " is an old garden ^t ]ir»&>&< maxim, but we must avoid sow- ing too thickly, which is a great evil. Onions, carrots, turnips, parsnips, beet, celery, mangolds, and all crops that are left to grow to maturity where they are sown, should be thinned as soon as they are in rough leaf, or large enough to easily handle. The best policy is to sow just thickly enough to secure a full crop. Overcrowding in a young state is ruinous. Too thick sowing and too late thinning has spoiled thousands of crops. Let the gardener ever bear in mind the three essentials— Food, Air, Light—for his Thinned and unthinned Carrots, showing thinned and good roots, and unthinned 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 Udale, James. Stourbridge, Mark & Moody
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