Feb.] The Kitchen Garden. 67 



Carrots and Par/fteps. 



Prepare fome ground about the middle or latter end of 

 this month, in which to fow carrots and parfneps. 



Thefe roots grow largell in light ground, and the farther 

 from trees the better ; for they thrive befl in an open ex- 

 pofure. Let the ground be trenched one full fpade deep 

 at lead, but if double digged two moderate fpades ; it will 

 be of particular advantage in promoting long handfome 

 roots, both of the carrots and parfneps ; let the clods be 

 well broken, and lay the furface even. 



They mull be fowed feparr»tely, each fort in diftind 

 compartments ; either dividing the ground into four or 

 five feet-wide beds, or remain in one continued plot ; fow 

 the feed on the rough furface, and not too thick ; as foon 

 as^ fown, and if light dry ground, tread them in evenly 

 with the feet pretty clofe together, then rake the ground. 

 See next month. 



Plant carrots, parfneps, and beets, for feed ; let them 

 be planted in rows two feet afunder. 



Beets. 



This is now the time to begin to fow the different forts 

 of beet ; the red beet for its large root ; and the green and 

 whire forts for their leaves in foups, ftewing, Szc. 



Beet-feed being pretty large, it is an eligible method 

 either to fow it in drills, in order that it may be more 

 regularly interred in the earth, all an equal depth, or to 

 dot it in with a blunt-ended dibble in rows ; let drills be 

 .drawn with an hoe, about an inch deep, and ten or twelve 

 inches afunder ; fow the feed therein thinly, and earth 

 it over an inch thick j and if you~fow it by dotting in, 

 have a blunt dibble, and in lines a foot afunder, dot holes 

 an inch deep, and fix^or eight inches dirtance in the row, 

 dropping three feeds in each as you go on, and cover them 

 in : and when the plants come up, leave only one of the 

 lUongcil in each hole. 



The red and the other forts muft be fown feparate, for 

 it is the root of the red fort only that is ufed, and the 

 leaves of the white and green kinds. 



But if you do not choofe to fow the feed in drills, it 

 fh'juld be fown in a piece of ground, whofe furface lies 

 nrctty rough; then tread in the feed, and rake it with a 

 I irge rake, that die feed may be burled a proper depth. 



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