. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. LETTUCE. CELERY 109 In some localities celery is shipped in crates where the bunches are laid flat and the tops lapped. Storing: Celery will withstand considerable light frost, but its keeping qualities and flavor will be injured by hard freezing. Large northern growers handle the last of the crop by the method known as trenching. The celery is first partially banked with earth and allowed to remain where grown so long as there is no dan- ger from heavy frosts. Then comes the wor
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. LETTUCE. CELERY 109 In some localities celery is shipped in crates where the bunches are laid flat and the tops lapped. Storing: Celery will withstand considerable light frost, but its keeping qualities and flavor will be injured by hard freezing. Large northern growers handle the last of the crop by the method known as trenching. The celery is first partially banked with earth and allowed to remain where grown so long as there is no dan- ger from heavy frosts. Then comes the work of digging the plants to l)c trenched. Trench ing will be great ly facilitated by setting up two parallel lines of twelve - inch boards, about eighteenor twenty inches apart, between which the dug celery is packed with the roots embedded in the soil. When the space between the boards is filled, soil is thrown up on the outside to the tops of the boards. The boards are then lifted out and used again, the soil being allowed to come in direct contact with the celery. These trenches are usually made only fifty or sixty feet in length and are small enough to per- mit the removal of a whole trench at one time. As colder weather approaches, the celery is either re- moved and marketed or a covering of boards, straw. GATHERING BOARD-BLANCHED CELERY NEAR SANFORD, FLA.—1,200 CRATES TO THE ACRE. 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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