. Barnard's seeds. Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CATALOG OF SELECTED GARDEN SEEDS 5 CABBAGE Culture. Cabbage grows successfully on a wide variety of soils and experience points to liming, deep plowing and heavy manuring as successful practices. Cabbage plants when properly hardened by gradually being brought to a low temperature and the quan- tity of water in them diminished, will stand considerable freezing. Yet a cabbage plant raised at a high temperature a
. Barnard's seeds. Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CATALOG OF SELECTED GARDEN SEEDS 5 CABBAGE Culture. Cabbage grows successfully on a wide variety of soils and experience points to liming, deep plowing and heavy manuring as successful practices. Cabbage plants when properly hardened by gradually being brought to a low temperature and the quan- tity of water in them diminished, will stand considerable freezing. Yet a cabbage plant raised at a high temperature and full of water will be killed by even a light frost. For plants of the earlies', sorts, sow seed in January or February under glass, and prick out in flats or frames about 2 inches apart each way. Transplant to open ground as soon in spring as the land can be properly prepared. A rich, warm, fibrous loam is best. All plants are best when grown without chock so let as much soil adhere to the roots of the plant in transplanting as will hold, and set up to the first leaf. At this time the plant should have three or four pairs of leaves and be four to five inches high. Have the plants in the rows 20 to 24 inches apart, and rows at least 2 feet apart. Give thorough cul- tivation and irrigate in dry weather if practicable. A little nitrate of soda applied around the plant is of great benefit. Potash application, such as wood ashes, may also do much good. For late Cabbage plants, sow seed in drills in open ground during April and May, and transplant in June and July, giving the plants more room than allowed for early Cabbages. Dusting with tobacco dust, insect powder, slug shot, etc., are good and safe remedies for some of the insect pests attacking plants of the Cabbage family. When club root appears, lime the soil heavily and do not plant brassica, that is, turnips, cauliflower and kindred crops upon this soil for two or three years. An ounce of seed produces 1,500 to 2,000 plants
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