VEGETABLE GROWING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Tlie scriber may be made on a 

 larger scale and fitted with a 

 handle, if such is desired, and 

 where deeper drills are required 

 than the pegs make, the marking 

 will serve as a guide line, to be 

 followed with a hand or wheel 

 hoe. If the first drill be struck 

 with a garden line, the use of a 

 scriber ensures that all succeeding 

 drills will be straight and evenly 

 spaced. 



The depth to sow depends on a 

 number of conditions, but as a 

 general rule is three or five times 

 the diameter of the seed. Where 

 conditions as to moisture can be 

 controlled, shallower sowings can 

 be made. During the heat of 

 summer it will be necessary to 

 plant deeper, in order to ensure 

 the seed being placed in the moist 

 soil. 



The Gardener's Seed-bed and 

 Seed Boxes. 



The cultivation of some varie- 

 ties of vegetables is carried out 

 with better results when the young 

 plants are ' raised in seed-beds. 

 Under this system it is possible 

 to bestow greater care upon the 

 plants, and so to encourage quick 

 growth. Indeed, there are certain 

 crops that are so delicate in their 

 early stages that their production 

 is only possible when seed-beds are 

 used for their propagation. This 

 is because it is impossible under 

 field conditions to prepare such a 

 satisfactory medium for germina- 

 tion of the seed as is necessary. 

 Given those conditions in a seed-bed 

 or group of seed boxes, it is possible 



