. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . mercial purposes, it is a good 150 VEGETABLE GARDENING. Dlan to build store houses, half in and half out of the ground; ina small way, they may be kept by burying the heads in sand ina cellar, or a few cabbages for home use, may be heeled in bythe roots in the cellar—but it should be borne in mind that de-caying cabbage is dangerous material to have under a dwellinghouse, and it should not be permitted under any storing cabbage the loose outside leaves should be removedand the stumps alwa
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . mercial purposes, it is a good 150 VEGETABLE GARDENING. Dlan to build store houses, half in and half out of the ground; ina small way, they may be kept by burying the heads in sand ina cellar, or a few cabbages for home use, may be heeled in bythe roots in the cellar—but it should be borne in mind that de-caying cabbage is dangerous material to have under a dwellinghouse, and it should not be permitted under any storing cabbage the loose outside leaves should be removedand the stumps always left on, except when they are to be storedin ^^ns Cabbage Seed is a somewhat difficult crop to raise in thissection, the trouble being in keeping the plants over , it may be done if care is used. For this purpose headsshould not be permitted to get very hard; they should be gath-ered before the stumps have been frozen and be set close to-•rether, heads up, in a trench and covered witL- abo it a foot of5foj^ and mulching enough to prevent severe Cabbage. Figure 66.—Seed cabbages pitted for winter. deed may be raised from the stumps after the heads are cut off,and this is a very simple matter as the stumps can be buried liketurnips or even kept in bins, providing they are covered withearth and kept cold, but such seed is not desirable, as the evi-dence seems to show that there is a tendency to increase thelength of the stump at the expense of the head under such treat-ment. It is generally agreed among our best seed growers thatcabbage seed should be saved from the terminal buds of thestem which are in the cabbage head. Providing the seed cab-bage are successfully wintered over, they should then be plantedabout the 1st of May in deep furrows about three feet apart, in CABBAGE^. rows four feet apart. Sometimes
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