. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 76 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK remaining plants may be left until maturity (if that is considered more profitable). A common system of culture is to plant sets in the early spring instead of seed, and raise this vege- table to bunch for the early market. The ground can then be cleared and planted with a second crop of something else. If preferred, mature bulbs may be grown from the sets, and this method will insure success in almost any soil. Spring-planted sets should be covered about tw
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 76 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK remaining plants may be left until maturity (if that is considered more profitable). A common system of culture is to plant sets in the early spring instead of seed, and raise this vege- table to bunch for the early market. The ground can then be cleared and planted with a second crop of something else. If preferred, mature bulbs may be grown from the sets, and this method will insure success in almost any soil. Spring-planted sets should be covered about two inches deep, and spaced two to four inches apart in the row, the latter dis- tance being best if you want large onions. Another plan (called the "new onion culture") followed to a considerable extent in recent years, is to sow seeds of the large Spanish or Italian varieties, such as Prizetaker, etc., in the hotbed and then trans- plant into the field at the earliest possible date. (These very large varieties need this early hotbed start to insure maturity in the short season of the North. Farther south they may be started in c o 1 d f r a m e s or sown in the fall out- doors.) This method is fully described in Farmers' Bulletin Xo. 39. Better get a copy. A favorite plan with many gardeners is to plant sets about three inches deep outdoors in late August or early fall, using the Egyptian or winter varieties. This method insures a crop of green onions for bunching at the earliest possible date. (Onions are very hardy in the ground outdoors, but in the North. HAND-WEEDING IS A LABORIOUS NECESSARY DETAIL. 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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