SPINACH 201 



vegetables which will shade them from strong sun- 

 shine. 



If the plants show signs of running to seed during 

 the summer months, they are best destroyed, and 

 replaced with other crops. 



The chief care with Spinach is to give the plants 

 plenty of water, either morning or evening, during 

 dry weather. 



TURNIPS 



Turnips (Brassica napus) are now grown as a forced 

 or " primeur " crop on hot-beds more than formerly. 

 Early in January a bed is made up to give a tem- 

 perature about 70 to 80 Fahr. The surface is then 

 covered with a layer, about 7 or 8 in. thick, of rich 

 mould, made up of two parts of old manure and one 

 part of rich loamy soil passed through a sieve. 



The seeds are usually sown neither broad-cast nor 

 in drills, but in small holes made in the compost with 

 the finger. About every 6 in. a hole i in. deep 

 is made with the finger, and into each one or two Turnip 

 seeds are dropped making about eighty to one 

 hundred to every light. 



The surface is then levelled with a piece of wood 

 and lightly watered, after which mats are spread 

 over the lights until germination has taken place 

 generally in four or five days. 



As soon as the first leaves after the seed-leaves have 

 developed, the young Turnips must be thinned out, 

 so that only one plant is left in each little hole. About 

 a month or six weeks after sowing, that is, about the 

 middle of February, the lights are taken away to 



