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i, SPINACH 



THE most popular of all vegetables for "greens/" 

 Since it is very hardy, it may be sown quite early in 

 the spring or in the late summer for fall use. It deserves 

 to be grown in every home garden since it vacates the 

 space it occupies before warm-season vegetables such as 

 beans and tomatoes are planted and it may be sown again 

 when rows of early vegetables like radishes, peas, beans, 

 etc., have borne their crop. 



Spinach seed germinates strongly and quickly. It 

 should be sown very thinly. The plants thrive in any 

 soil, but only during cool weather. Experienced gar- 

 deners often mix spinach and carrot seeds and sow them 

 at the same time in the same furrows. The strong spin- 

 ach seedlings will "break" the soil for the more delicate 

 carrot seedlings. Before the carrots begin to develop 

 the spinach will be used. Other phases of spinach cul- 

 ture are described on page 226. 



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