CHAPTER SIX 

 ROOT CROP PROJECTS 



The root crops, including the beet, carrot, radish, turnip, pars- 

 nip, salsify, horse-radish, kohl-rabi, rutabaga, and celeriac, are 

 grown with entire success at comparatively low temperatures, and 

 they are generally cultivated throughout the North. They 

 thrive best in moist, deep, fertile, sandy loams, but excellent 

 roots are produced in a great diversity of soils. Sandy soils are 

 favorable to their most symmetrical development, and there are 

 fewer of the small, fibrous feeding roots, always objectionable, 

 than when grown in heavy soils. 



Project XII. Growing Root Crops 



1. Importance of root crops. 



2. Selecting location. 



3. Choosing varieties. 



4. Sources of seed. 



5. Preparing the ,soil. 



6. When to plant. 



7. Spacing the rows. 



8. Drilling the seed. 



9. Companion cropping. 



10. Thinning the plants. 



11. Cultivating. 



12. Weeding. 



13. Combating insects. 



14. Harvesting and marketing. 



15. Storing root crops. 



16. Forcing. 



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