Early Spring Vegetables 



The inoculating of the seed is very simple: 

 the small bottles, which, by the way, cost but 

 twenty-five cents for garden size, are only one- 

 fourth full; simply fill up the bottle with water 

 and moisten the seed before planting; this is all, 

 and the same bottle will supply inoculating ma- 

 terial for the beans which also being legumes re- 

 spond favorably to the treatment. 



RADISHES 



A few radishes may be grown in the hotbed 

 for very early use, but the main planting should 

 be in the open ground. It is hardly worth while 

 to devote any definite part of the garden to rad- 

 ishes as room can be found for them among the 

 other vegetables. An excellent way to grow 

 them is to drop seeds at intervals along the rows 

 of beets, carrots, parsnips and salsify. All these 

 seeds are slow in germinating and by dropping 

 in occasional radish seeds which germinate in 

 from three to five days the rows will be marked 

 so that they may be kept cultivated without wait- 

 ing for the plants to appear and indicate the rows. 



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