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The low-growing late varieties do best when sown 

 thinly in rows where they are to stand. After the plants 

 are well started, thin to eighteen inches apart. 



KOHL-RABI 



Sowing. Kohl-rabi may be started in window boxes 

 or in hotbeds early in the spring. The plants may also 

 be grown for transplanting in seed beds out of doors ; 



FIG. 147. A Kohl-Rabi Plant 



they are not easily injured by frosts. The seeds may also 

 be sown where the plants are to remain. Sow thinly in 

 rows eighteen inches apart. Thin to six or eight inches 

 apart in the row. The thinnings may be transplanted. 



Harvesting. Use the enlarged stem when it is about 

 two thirds grown. Later it becomes stringy. 



