itS The Kitchen Garden. [Mar. 



Dig for thefe feeds a rich fpot of ground in an open 

 fituation, and let the earth be well broken. Sow the 

 feeds on the furface, with an even h .nd, and rake the-in 

 in lightly, taking care not to draw the earth in hejips. 



covjh;g Spinach. 



Sow Spinach to facceed that fown laft month ; the fow- 

 ings fhould be repeated once a fortnight or three weeks, 

 or thereabouts, to have a regular fupply ; for one fowing 

 will riot continue fit for ufe longer than that time, before 

 it will run. Let the feed be of the round-leaved, or 

 fmooth feeded kind ; that being the moil proper fort to 

 fow at this feafon, its leaves being confiderably thicker, 

 and every way larger than the prickly-feeded fpinach. 



This feed may, at this feafon, be fown either on a fpot 

 alone, or with fome other crops, fuch as between rows of 

 beans, or on the ground where you plant cabbages or 

 cauliflowers; obfer\ing, that either alone, or with other 

 crops, fpinach-feed ihould be Town pretty thin, and ge- 

 nerally in broad-caft, and in which method you may mix 

 a little radifh-feed and fow with it ; wjien the feed is 

 fown, tread the ground all over equally vi'ith the feet to- 

 lerably clofe, taking pretty ihorc fieps, then let it be 

 evenly raked ; or may occafionally fow it in broad flat drills 

 near an inch deep, and a foot afunder. 

 _Let it be obferved, that fpinach fhoiild not, at this fca-^ 

 fon, be fown where the ground i:. much fhaded wi.h trees 

 or bufties, for in fuch fituations the plants would be drav«^n 

 up to feed before they arrive to half their growth. 



Hoe, or hand-weed, the early crops of fpring fpinach, 

 thinning the plants at the fame time, to five or fix inches 

 diftance. 



The crop of winter fpinach which was fown laft autumn, 

 will now be advancing to. good perfedlion for ufe, and 

 iliould now be kept clear from weeds, and the enrth be- 

 tween the plants iHrred with ^ hoe ; and m gathering the 

 plants for ufe, if they Hand clofe, fhouid thin tlieni out 

 clean by the roots ; but if they already ftand at wide dif- 

 tances, only a-op ti\e large outer leaves as wanted, till 

 they begin to run, then cut than clean up to the 

 bottom. 



