. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Extra Early Red. 226—How to Make the Garden Pay. I have discovered still another method for growing onions, both for early and late use, and I consider it of the greatest I am sure it is by far the safest and best way of raising mammoth bulbs for exhibition purposes, and it has other important advantages besides. A Novel Method.—In February, March or April, start plants by sowing seed thickly in a well-prepared cold frame, and as soon as the open ground can be worked, prepare it in the same thor- ough way as directed for bunch and se
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Extra Early Red. 226—How to Make the Garden Pay. I have discovered still another method for growing onions, both for early and late use, and I consider it of the greatest I am sure it is by far the safest and best way of raising mammoth bulbs for exhibition purposes, and it has other important advantages besides. A Novel Method.—In February, March or April, start plants by sowing seed thickly in a well-prepared cold frame, and as soon as the open ground can be worked, prepare it in the same thor- ough way as directed for bunch and seed onions, using the best of manure without stint. Mark out the patch with a hand-marker at the usual distance, and set the young plants 3 inches apart in the row, or even 4 inches for the large foreign sorts which succeed admirably under this treatment. The part intended for early use as *'bunch'' onions need not be planted further than 2 inches apart. Every other one may then be pulled up and used in an early stage of growth, and the remaining ones be left to come to maturity. I recommend this method with fullest confidence as a most excellent one, and I believe that even the market gardener (and per- haps the farm gardener also) may find points of merit in it which will recommend it to him for trial. It reduces the expense for seed to a minimum ; and while requiring considerable labor in setting the plants (although youngsters might be employed for this purpose to advantage, and with a saving in wages), it dispenses with most of the tedious and delicate hand- weeding. This work can be done very conveniently by means of wheel-hoe and hand hoe alone. My new method also makes the crop uniform, and by lengthening the growing season of the fra- grant bulb, adds to its individual size, and to the aggregate yield. I practice this novel method myself—am not merely preach- ing it. Under this season's most unfavorable circumstances my Prize-taker onions, grown in this way, yield
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