The Garden Under Glass
Forfatter: William F. Rowles
År: 1914
Forlag: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers
Sted: London
Sider: 368
UDK: 631.911.9
With Numerous Practical Diagrams From Drawings By G. D. Rowles And Thirty-Two Illustrations From Photographs
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FORCING VEGETABLES 197 also be planted between potatoes when these are grown in frames. Earliest of All, Commodore Nutt and Golden Ball are good varieties.
Mustard and Cress.—Known in the trade as “ hot and cold.” It is very easily grown. It needs to be sown quite thickly over the surface of a box of soil previously watered. Put the box in a warm house and cover it
Diagram 39.—Potatoes: 1. Sprouting potatoes in a box on greenhouse shelf. 2. A well-sprouted potato. 3 and 4. Potatoes put singly or in threes in g-inch pot. 5. Potatoes planted in pit over heating material. 6. Top view of frame showing lines of potatoes with lettuces between.
until germination commences. Then take off the covering and cut befoie it has broken into rough leaf. To keep up a supply, sow a little of both each week.
Potatoes.—May be forced in a frame or in pots. If grown in frames, it is preferable that a modicum of bottom heat be given by means of a foot or more of heating material. Plant in rows about fifteen inches apart and sixinches between the sets. As stated previously, carrots