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scheme for managing hotbeds. Some lettuce may 

 be matured there if you can spare room for the 

 heads, to be thinned to nine inches apart each way. 

 New Plantings. Other vegetables that you should 

 sow this month, in the same general way as I have 

 directed for the cabbage, are onions (and leeks), 

 celery, about the middle of the month, and more 

 cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, if you 

 like them, about the end of February. This will 

 be your main "early crop," the January planting 

 being merely a small, extra-early attempt to gain 

 time and, often, to take advantage of the call for 

 early cabbage plants. 



The brambles make a lot of unnecessary growth in a season. Prune 

 them during the resting or dormant .winter period; anytime fron? 

 November to March, but no later 



If conditions are really favorable for keeping 

 them warm, sow tomatoes, eggplant and peppers, 

 just about the end of the month. For all of these 



