CHAPTER VII 



FKESH VEGETABLES ALL THE YEAR ROUND 



ONE of the greatest errors which the beginner makes 

 when he first crops an allotment is to grow a quantity of 

 vegetables which all mature within two or three months 

 of the year. As a consequence, he has a surfeit of fresh 

 food from July to September, or perhaps October, and 

 during the other eight months an unpleasant shortage is 

 experienced. Clearly, it should be his aim to produce 

 supplies all the year round, and with a view to assisting 

 him to this end the list which follows is appended. In 

 the brief space at our command we are only able to give 

 the more usual periods of sowing, planting, and gathering, 

 but, in the chapters which follow many further sugges- 

 tions are offered to enable the grower to rear produce out 

 of season and so lengthen the periods of gathering as 

 stated below : 



Beans, Broad. Sow late February, gather June to August. 

 Sow in October, gather early in spring. 



Beans, Runner, etc. Sow May, gather August to October. 



Beetroots. Sow end of April, gather July to October. 



Borecole or Kale. Sow April, plant June, gather Decem- 

 ber to March. 



Broccoli. Sow April, plant June, gather September to 

 December. Sow later kinds April, plant June, gather 

 January to April. Sow still later kinds May, gather April 

 to June. 



