THE GROWING OF VARIOUS VEGETABLES 



to reserve a portion in case the first sowing should 

 fail and a later one need to be made. 



After the plants are of a size to be planted out 

 there is little difference in the culture accorded 

 them and that given other vegetables, but they 

 should not be allowed to suffer for water, and a 

 weekly dose of liquid manure after the plants 

 bloom will be of benefit. 



When about a foot high, the earth should be 

 drawn up about the stem in cultivating. The plants 

 are often seriously injured by the potato-bug, which 

 eats the stem of the blossom at the point where it 

 curves over, seldom, to any extent, the leaves of the 

 plant. Whenever the bug appears early in the 

 season, the plants should be gone over daily to 

 catch and destroy it, or they may be sprayed with 

 Paris green, which at this stage will do no harm. 

 The destruction of these first blossoms will make 

 two or three weeks' difference in the maturing of 

 the first crop and must be met energetically. These 

 first bugs which appear lay their eggs on the under- 

 side of the leaves, and these must be looked for 

 and destroyed and little subsequent trouble will be 

 experienced. 



Curiously enough, for a plant which starts out 

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