no Home Vegetable Gardening 



supply for the home garden. Use Chantenay or Ox- 

 Heart (see Chapter XII) for this purpose. 



The late crop is sometimes sown between rows of 

 onions, skipping every third row, during June, and 

 left to mature when the onions are harvested; but 

 unless the ground is exceptionally free from weeds, 

 the plan is not likely to prove successful. 



Kohlrabi: — While not truly a "root crop" — the 

 edible portion being a peculiar globular enlargement 

 of the stem — its culture is similar, as it may be sown 

 in drills and thinned out. Frequently, however, it 

 is started in the seed-bed and transplanted, the main 

 crop (for market) being sown in May or June. A 

 few of these from time to time will prove very 

 acceptable for the home table. They should be used 

 when quite young ; as small as two inches being the 

 tenderest. 



Leek: — To attain its best the leek should be 

 started in the seed-bed, late in April, and trans- 

 planted in late June, to the richest, heaviest soil 

 available. Hill up from time to time to blanch lower 

 part of stalk ; or a few choice specimens may be had 

 by fitting cardboard collars around the stem and 

 drawing the earth up to these, not touching the stalk 

 with earth. 



Onions: — Onions for use in the green state are 

 grown from white "sets," put out early in April, 

 three to four inches apart in rows twelve inches 



