. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . ire to becleaned in the spring, and this is done by rubbing them in thehands to loosen the dirt and tops and then running them througha fanning mill. After this they are run over a screen with athree-fourths inch mesh, and only those that go through it aresaved for sets. This work of cleaning may be done in autumnbefore storing and the sets mixed with chaff to aid in keepingthem over winter. Transplanting Onions.—Within a few years some marketgardeners have adopted a plan of raising onions by sowing these
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . ire to becleaned in the spring, and this is done by rubbing them in thehands to loosen the dirt and tops and then running them througha fanning mill. After this they are run over a screen with athree-fourths inch mesh, and only those that go through it aresaved for sets. This work of cleaning may be done in autumnbefore storing and the sets mixed with chaff to aid in keepingthem over winter. Transplanting Onions.—Within a few years some marketgardeners have adopted a plan of raising onions by sowing theseed in March in a hotbed and then transplanting the seedlings to the open ground as soon as it works well. This system hasthe merit of doing away with the first few weedmgs m the openground, reduces the expense of seed to a minimum and makesit possible to raise some of the more delicate foreign varietiesof onions, which command the highest price in the market. Pis, however, very doubtful if the common field onions can beraised at a profit under this method, but it is desirable if the. Fig-ure 53.—Transplanting- Onions in the Fiela. ONIONS. 129 Spanish kinds are to be raised in this section. The selectionand preparation of the land for this purpose is the same as for afield crop. The seed is sown in a hotbed in rows three inchesapart, or on a small scale a few plants may be raised in a boxin the window of the living room. The soil for this purposeshould be a somewhat sandy loam of only moderate quality, andthat which has no manure in it is most certain to grow healthyplants. If very thick in the row, the plants must be thinnedout so as not to crowd one another too much, but still they maybe grown very thickly; as many as twelve to fifteen plants tothe inch of row is about right, and to secure this amount abouttwice as many seeds will have to be sown to the inch. Toomuch importance cannot be attached to the raising of strongplants, since those that are weak and spindling are v
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