Mid-Season Vegetables 



leaves to roughen them or the apphcation of to- 

 bacco tea or tobacco stems or leaves about the 

 plants. 



Pieces of sod, about four inches square, should 

 be cut and placed earth-side up close together 

 in the warmest part of the hotbed and sev- 

 eral seeds planted on each piece and the whole 

 covered with a fourth of an inch of earth. When 

 ready to transplant lift the pieces on to a flat 

 board or carrier and slip into a hole prepared for 

 them with as little disturbance as possible and 

 press the soil firmly about them so that the air 

 will not get underneath and dry the roots. 



There is not too much room for vine vegetables 

 of any sort in the small kitchen garden and if de- 

 sired the early cucumbers for table use may be 

 grown on netting. The Japanese cucumber is 

 a climbing sort especially addicted to this manner 

 of growth, bears fine, large fruit of most excellent 

 quality and the position on the wire, away from 

 the soil and damp ground, produces a most at- 

 tractive fruit, free from the yellow blanching 

 that is present on the cucumbers grown on the 



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