. Practical gardening, vegetables and fruits, helpful hints for the home garden, common mistakes and how to aviod them. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. KEEPING VEGETABLES below zero the pitting of vegetables should not be attempted. Such crops as turnips, pars- nips, beets, carrots, cabbage and potatoes may be kept until late spring if stored on a well drained strip of soil. Where the soil is more ffaaf to VentiUlor Op*B tn^ "V. OrainJ Fig. 64.—Diagram of a vegetable pit. It should run east and west and the mouth of the ventilator should slant north. Have eight inches of straw at the
. Practical gardening, vegetables and fruits, helpful hints for the home garden, common mistakes and how to aviod them. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. KEEPING VEGETABLES below zero the pitting of vegetables should not be attempted. Such crops as turnips, pars- nips, beets, carrots, cabbage and potatoes may be kept until late spring if stored on a well drained strip of soil. Where the soil is more ffaaf to VentiUlor Op*B tn^ "V. OrainJ Fig. 64.—Diagram of a vegetable pit. It should run east and west and the mouth of the ventilator should slant north. Have eight inches of straw at the base of the pit. As the weather grows colder add more earth, as indicated, to keep out the frost. or less level, dig two trenches eight inches deep on each side of the mound base, which should be about six feet wide and the required length, so that the vegetables may be piled four feet deep. Place on the surface of the ridge about six inches of clean straw. 231. 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 Findlay, Hugh, 1879-1950. New York, London, D. Appleton and company
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