. War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables ... Fig. 6—A paper band folded into the form of aberry box, without bottom, is a good holder forindoor seed planting. The picture shows howtlusc are placed side by side in a flat box. The standard adopted by the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture for seedgennination is as follows: Should produce 6o to 8o per cent : Celery, Parsley, Salsify, Eggplant, Parsnip. Should produce 8o to 85 per cent: Asparagus, Okra, Spinach, Carrot, Onion, Cauli-flower, Pepper. Should produce 85 to 90 per cent : Corn (sweet), Lettuce, Squash, Cress, Mel
. War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables ... Fig. 6—A paper band folded into the form of aberry box, without bottom, is a good holder forindoor seed planting. The picture shows howtlusc are placed side by side in a flat box. The standard adopted by the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture for seedgennination is as follows: Should produce 6o to 8o per cent : Celery, Parsley, Salsify, Eggplant, Parsnip. Should produce 8o to 85 per cent: Asparagus, Okra, Spinach, Carrot, Onion, Cauli-flower, Pepper. Should produce 85 to 90 per cent : Corn (sweet), Lettuce, Squash, Cress, Melon,Tomato, Cucumber, Pumpkin. Should produce 90 to 95 per cent : Bean, Mustard, Turnip, Cabbage, Pea, Radish. INDOOR PLANTING. Earlier crops can be secured by plantingcertain seeds indoors and setting the youngplants out in the open garden after theweather becomes warm. -This may be done. Fig. 8—Suggestion for a seed box for startingplants indoors. with tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower,peppers, and eggplant. Any wooden box, shallow and wide,will make an indoor garden. Put 1 inchof gravel or cinders in the bottom fordrainage, and fill to the top with good of plants may be 2 inches apart. Plant 8 or 10 seeds to the inch, keep the soil damp, and set the box in a the plants are an inch high trans-plant them to other seed boxes, spacing plants 2 inches apart. This insures sturdyplants with good root systems. Transplanting. Before transplanting the plants to thegarden set the box outdoors, in mildweather, to harden the plants. Set out eachplant with a ball of the box dirt sticking tothe roots. Thorough watering several hoursbefore transplanting causes the earth tostick as required. If the root system is broken in the re-moval trim away some of the larger leavesof the plants. In moist ground open a hole
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