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til after the Spring growth has started; then the soil is hoed or 

 shoveled away, the ground enriched, with bone and manure, and 

 cultivated occasionally during the rest of the season, or the plants 

 when grown may be taken up and forced in frames, hotbeds, or the 

 greenhouse. In this case they are handled in much the same way 

 as Witloof Chicory. 



Tomatoes trained to a fence 



SPINACH. As with Lettuce and some other crops, success with 

 Spinach depends largely on choosing a variety suitable for the season 

 for which it is wanted. For Spring use Winter Spinach is sown the 

 previous Fall and carried over with a mulching of hay, straw or 

 dried litter. In Spring two or three succession plantings can be 

 made to maintain the supply until Summer. For Summer use sow, 

 during late May, New Zealand Spinach. This is not cut like other 

 varieties, but the leaves are gathered from the stem while the plant 

 continues to grow, until hard frost. The Spring varieties can be 

 sown again for use in the Fall, or under irrigation they grow readily 

 during Midsummer. 



