Early Spring Vegetables 



Ground for peas should be veiy rich; it is not 

 sufficient that the garden plot has been well 

 inianured before ploughing; — the strip allotted 

 to the growing of peas should have additional 

 fertilizer trenched in, especially is this necessary 

 in growing the wrinkled sorts and especially the 

 dwarf peas, such as Nott's Excelsior and the 

 like. These dwarf peas cannot bear a big crop 

 on their abbreviated tops unless forced to pro- 

 duction by heavy feeding, but as the wrinkled, 

 medium early and mid-season peas are the most 

 delicious of all in quality, the extra care required 

 is well repaid. Another object in heavy fer- 

 tilizing is that by this means a succession of peas 

 may be grown on the same ground. Personally 

 I prefer peas that require support to the very 

 dwarf sorts ; in the first place you have more vine 

 for the production of pods. You cannot, with 

 the best intentions, get as big a crop from one 

 foot of vine as you can from three, all things 

 being equal. Again, the labor of gathering pods 

 from upright growing vines where the pods are 

 easily seen and reached is far less than from the 



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