Vegetable growing . ith it, and what isdemanded in following it out. It is well adapted to thegrowing of onions in the home garden wherever hot-bed spaceis available for starting the plants, and the advantagesenumerated above are more likely to materialize on a smallarea in the garden than on a field scale. The plants are grown by sowing the seed in rows 4 inchesapart in the hot-bed or greenhouse. The difficulties to beencountered are damping off and growing the plants to alarge enough size by the time they can be set out. Damping 220 LONG SEASON CROPS THAT ARE HARDY off is prevented to a larg
Vegetable growing . ith it, and what isdemanded in following it out. It is well adapted to thegrowing of onions in the home garden wherever hot-bed spaceis available for starting the plants, and the advantagesenumerated above are more likely to materialize on a smallarea in the garden than on a field scale. The plants are grown by sowing the seed in rows 4 inchesapart in the hot-bed or greenhouse. The difficulties to beencountered are damping off and growing the plants to alarge enough size by the time they can be set out. Damping 220 LONG SEASON CROPS THAT ARE HARDY off is prevented to a large degree by watering but little duringdark weather, maintaining a low temperature, and by ad-mitting plenty of fresh air to the growing plants. In orderto produce plants of sufficient size for transplanting theseed should be sown in the hot-bed by at least the first weekin March. From eight to ten weeks are necessary for growingthem to the size of a lead pencil, which is the smallest sizethat will give good Fig. 109.—Seedling onions or prickers are cut back at the top androot when taken from the hot-bed and set in the garden. (The CountryGentleman.) Transplanting the young seedlings into the garden is doneas soon as the land can be fitted in spring. The preparationof the soil is done in a thorough manner just the same aswhen onion seed are to be sown. The rows are markedout from 1 foot to 18 inches apart, and the transplants setat a distance of 2 to 4 inches in the recently worked soil. Aconsiderable part of the tops and a portion of the rootsof the plants are cut away to facilitate planting by having ONION 221 no long roots to curl upward and to check transpiration byhaving a smaller top. Onion plants that have had the topspartly trimmed off are more certain to grow after trans-planting, because less moisture is thrown off from the reducedleaf surface. As soon as the transplanting has been completed the landis cultivated and the crop grown in the same manner as whe
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