ELEVEN] COME AND SEE MY CABBAGES 
method of all is to sow in cigar boxes, which can 
be placed in your kitchen windows. If you intend 
to plant cauliflower, or celery, or eggplant, these 
also must be added at this time. 
In March or April, just as soon as the ground is 
workable, sow beets, carrots, peas, early potatoes, 
spinach, radish, and early turnips. Put your peas 
in five inches deep, and see that your ground is not 
only well underdrained, but has good surface drain- 
age. When dashing showers come, they should be 
caught at once in prepared runways, and carried 
off without washing the garden soil. This is es- 
pecially necessary if you are cultivating a hillside. 
One half the compost, or fertilizer, is often carried 
away by asingle dashing shower. Besides this, early 
seeds are washed out, or hopelessly buried under 
several inches of dirt. If you will grow your own 
onions, they must be sown in April. A second 
planting must come about two weeks after the first. 
A very little later I add corn and beans — that is, 
about the end of April — with the understanding 
that they may get nipped by late frosts. If they do, 
we must plant over again; if they don’t, we gain a 
month in these delicious vegetables. 
About the middle of May we put in our second 
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