DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



VEGETABLE GROWING 



IN 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



SUITABLE SITES FOR MARKET GARDENING. 



VEGETABLES are raised in New South Wales under a great variety of 

 conditions such a variety, indeed, that many popular edibles are on the 

 market in Sydney and other towns most of the year round. So easily are 

 they grown, too, that there is hardly a spot where sufficient for average 

 household purposes cannot be raised on a small area at no greater expense 

 than a little manual labour. 



Success will depend in part, however, upon the choice of a suitable site. 

 With this aspect of matters the ordinary suburban resident is not so much 

 interested, for he is influenced by domestic and business convenience in 

 choosing his locale, and he must therefore adapt his vegetable growing to 

 his conditions. 



The small market gardener to whose requirements the following pages 

 are largely directed must regard the selection of a suitable district arid 

 site as one of the first essentials of success. 



Upon the choice of the land, indeed, depends a great deal more than 

 might at first sight appear, for not only must the quality and character of 

 the soil, the supply of water, and the aspect, be kept in view, but even the 

 locality in which operations are to be carried on has an important relation to 

 the ultimate success of the undertaking. The nature of the crop or crops, 

 the market to be catered for, the facilities for forwarding the produce and 

 for obtaining supplies of manure, as well as the capital available and the 

 price of the land, must all operate as factors in the choice of the district in 

 which the produce is to be raised. 



For market gardening, distinctions must be drawn, for instance, between 

 areas near the city, with their great variety of produce, and those farms 

 where the ordinary activities of agriculture are combined with the growth of 

 some vegetable for which a special piece of land and the. climate provide 

 favourable conditions. It is under such circumstances as the last that 



