. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. market. See Chapter on " Cold ; As a market vegetable, carrots are tied up m bunches, in same fashion as early Danvers. beets, bunch onions, etc., and generally prove profitable. When grown as an early outdoor crop for market or family use. seed IS sown as soon m spring as the ground is in proper working order in rows 12 to 15 inches apart, and the plants thinned to 2 or 3 mches apart m the rows. The ground need not be as llT^,J^^r'^^ as required for most other garden crops; but early attention must be given, for the plants
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. market. See Chapter on " Cold ; As a market vegetable, carrots are tied up m bunches, in same fashion as early Danvers. beets, bunch onions, etc., and generally prove profitable. When grown as an early outdoor crop for market or family use. seed IS sown as soon m spring as the ground is in proper working order in rows 12 to 15 inches apart, and the plants thinned to 2 or 3 mches apart m the rows. The ground need not be as llT^,J^^r'^^ as required for most other garden crops; but early attention must be given, for the plants have a small begin- ning, and start somewhat feebly, and if neglected are liabll to get crowded out by weeds or lost amon| them. Keep the wheel-hoe going from the very first, and pull up every weel Except in the limited way of bunch carrots, the vegetable is ^ ^ !""\ '^^u \ ^^'?^"" "•?°P- Carrots, although good culinary material in the hands of skilled cooks, are not used so Cultural Directions.—171 extensively for a kitchen vegetable here as they are in Europe; but we are learning to appreciate them more and more as a root crop for stock, especially for horses and milch cows. In many places, especially near larger cities, carrots for stock feeding are one of the best paying farm garden crops, being in ready demand at ^ to per barrel; and since 300 barrels and upwards can be produced per acre with good culture, the reader may draw his own conclusions concerning the profits. The crop can be grown as a second one after spinach, radishes, early beets, and even strawberries, early cabbages, etc., without further manuring. One of the best selections of soil. 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 Greiner, Tuisco, 1846-. Philadelphia : Wm. Henry Maule
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