CHAPTER XXII 

 VEGETABLE GROWING 



Those plants, known as vegetables, which are grown for 

 their roots, stems, leaves, or fruits, naay be roughly divided 

 into cool season crops and warm season crops. There are 

 some plants, which must be started in the cool season, but 

 which continue to grow throughout the summer. Plants 

 of this kind will be considered here among the cool season 

 crops. 



232. Cool Season Crops. — Almost all of the vegetables 

 which are grown for their roots, stems or leaves, fall into this 

 class. 



The seed of those which are grown for their roots, such 

 as the radish, carrot, parsnip and beet, will germinate 

 while the 'soil is yet quite cool and make their best growth 

 before the heat of summer comes on. In order to succeed 

 well, all of the root crops require a deep, rich, loose, mellow, 

 cool soil, plenty of surface cultivation and enough moisture 

 and cool weather to keep them growing rapidly. 



The potato, which may also be regarded as a root crop, 

 though the tuber is really an underground stem, Ukewise 

 deUghts in a cool climate and a rich, deep, cool soil, which 

 contains enough humus to give it a large moisture-holding 

 capacity. 



Onions, together with a number of less common vege- 

 tables, such as the shallot, leek, garhc and chive, are known 

 as bulb crops, for they all grow from, and produce a bud 

 in the middle of a cluster of, shortened, thickened leaves, 



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