252 Home Vegetable Gardening 



MARCH 



Hotbeds. If not made last of February, should 

 be made at once. Some of the seed sown last month 

 will be ready for transplanting and going into the 

 frames; also lettuce sown in January. Radish and 

 carrot (forcing varieties) may be soWn in alternat- 

 ing rows (page 109). Give much more air; water 

 on bright mornings; be careful not to have them 

 caught by suddenly cold nights after a bright warm 

 day. 



Seed-sozving under glass. Last sowing of early 

 cabbage and early summer cabbages (like Succes- 

 sion), lettuce, rhubarb (for seedling plants), cauli- 

 flower, radish, spinach, turnip, and early tomatoes ; 

 towards last of month, late tomatoes and first of 

 peppers, and egg-plant. Sweet peas often find a 

 place in the vegetable garden; start a few early, to 

 set out later; they will do better than if started out- 

 side. Start tomatoes for growing in frames. For 

 early potatoes sprout in sand (page 112). 



Planting, outside. If an early spring, and the 

 ground is sufficiently dry, sow onions, lettuce, beet, 

 radish, (sweet peas), smooth peas, early carrot, cab- 

 bage, leek, celery (main crop), and turnip. Set out 

 new beds of asparagus, rhubarb and sea-kale (be 

 sure to try a few plants of the latter; see page 125). 

 Manure and fork up old beds of abo^e. 



