SOWING AND PLANTING 27 



tageous to grow are * Sugar Loaf ' and ' Best of All '. 

 The former is unique in its habit of growth and can be 

 planted in rows 18 inches apart, and the plants need not 

 be more than 12 inches apart in the row. Savoys can be 

 planted out after early potatoes and in ground well 

 manured for the previous crop. 



Carrots. The soil for carrots should be well trenched 

 or dug in during the winter and if any stable manure is 

 applied it should be well rotted and should be placed at 

 the bottom of the trench. An ideal soil is a sandy loam 

 of great depth. The roots cannot be grown successfully 

 in lumpy soil. Lumps must be broken up and a fine 

 tilth obtained before the seeds are sown. Should it be 

 impossible to obtain this condition it is advisable to 

 make holes with an iron bar in rows a foot apart and 

 with the holes 8 inches from one another in the rows. 

 These holes should be from 12 to 18 inches deep. A 

 fortnight or so before sowing the seed the holes should 

 be filled in with a compost made of ordinary garden soil, 

 leaf mould, sand, and wood ashes, sifted through a half- 

 inch mesh sieve. Sow only three or four seeds in each 

 hole and on thinning out leave only one plant in each 

 hole. Sowings of carrots can be made out of doors from 

 the end of March till the end of June. For a late crop 

 sow an early variety late in June. A great mistake is 

 often made by sowing carrots for winter use too early. 

 (The same may be said concerning beet and parsnips.) 

 The crop matures in sixteen to twenty weeks. May is 

 a good time for the main sowing. 



Sow in rows 12 inches apart at a depth of about half 

 an inch. Half an ounce of seed will sow a row 100 feet 

 long and the yield should be approximately 1J bushels. 

 Mix the seed with fine dry soil, or sand, to sow thinly. 



