Mid-Season Vegetables 



or five inches above the ground, draw in a part 

 of the earth and fill the trench with water, fill 

 in the remainder of the soil, pressing snugly, 

 make a fine dry mulch about the plant and the 

 work is done. The long stem buried in the trench 

 will send out roots all its length and will have a 

 much greater root system than a plant set with 

 just a few inches of stem in the ground; such a 

 plant set in such a way, invariably lives and makes 

 a strong plant, but to plant it with only the root 

 part under the ground would only invite the loss 

 of the plant. 



The plot should be looked over the following 

 morning to see if cut worms have cut off any of 

 the plants during the night and to restore, if nec- 

 essarj'-, the dust-mulch. 



Plants grown on stakes or trellises are more 

 susceptible to frost than those gi'own on the 

 ground as the soil holds the heat and it is an easy 

 matter to cover a considerable number of plants 

 at one time with tarpaulin or even newspapers and 

 this should be done when there is even a slight 

 prospect of frost. The thermometer should be 



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