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KITCHEN- 
IV. 
GARDEN. 
¢ Soak Week let the Gardener get fome Spi- “at Weeds fhould be meee up, iad she ftrongeft 
nach Seed into the Ground, for a Supply 
in Winter, and till the Spring Spinach comes. 
The hardier Kind is fitteft for this Purpofe, and 
this is the Burdock Spinach, or large rough feeded 
Kind. 
Some Piece of Ground where an early Crop 
has been cleared off, will es well anfwer this 
Purpofe. 
We ordered laft Week the Onions to be taken 
up, and no part of the Ground will better an- 
fwer the Purpofe, than where that flight rooted 
Crop has ftood. A little old and well rotted 
Dung fhould be ftrewed over the Ground, well 
mixed with the Mould in the “EINE and the 
~ Surface levelled. 
Let the Gardener fee that his Seed be frefh, 
and well ripened; for Spinach is a Plant very 
apt to fail when any due Care is neglected in 
the fowing. °’Tis beft to fow Seeds of his own 
faving, for ’tis hard depending upon what are 
kept for Sale: a cloudy Day fhould be chofen 
when there is little Wind, and the Seed fprinkled 
thick, efpecially if there be any Doubt of its 
Frefhnefs. 
If no Rain happen in two or three Days after 
the fowing, the Piece muft be watered ; and this 
muit be repeated once in three or four Days, if 
no Rain comes, till the Plants appear. 
When the Plants fhew fome Strength they 
fhould be thin’d, and cleared from Weeds: one 
Operation will very well anfwer both thefe Pur- 
pofes, and it is beft done by Hand: the common 
Way is with the Hoe, but this does the Office 
in a poor and flovenly Manner; nothing would 
_ be more eafy than to do it the other perfect 
Way. 
If the Spinach be fown on Beds four Foot 
wide, with Alleys between, the whole may be 
performed by Hand with Eafe and Expedition : 
Plants of the Spinach left at five Inches Di- 
ftance. After this the Beds fhould have a good 
Watering, and the reft of the Coe will go on 
with Vigour. 
Thus * may ftand without farther Care 2 
Month. It will require then to be clean’d again 
in the fame Manner, and after that to be weeded 
once more before Winter. The Weeds would | 
‘ftarve and choak it if fuffered, to remain to take 
any confiderable Growth, for ‘Spinach i is a weak 
Crop at firft. : 
In the Middle of Ofsber the Gatherings may 
be begun, and the Plants will furnith good Crops 
all Winter. ‘They do not naturally run up to 
Stalk at this Seafon; but Nature {pends all her 
Strength in furnifhing good Leaves. 
The Method of Gathering is to be founded on 
this: the Plants are not to be torn up, .but their 
large Leaves taken off; and as thofe in the 
Centre are left, they will grow out upon the 
others being taken away. Thus there will be a 
Succeffion from Time to Time; and the Bed be- 
ing proportioned to the Demand, there will be 
a Supply all the Seafon. 
In Spring thefe Plants will run up to Stalk. 
A proper Number are then to be left for Seed, 
and the reft pulled up. This Seed mutt be fuf. 
fered to ripen perfeétly, and then be well dry’d 
and fown, as we» have directed, the following 
Auguft. 
The Kinds of Spinach for Spring and Summer 
Ufe are different from thefe, and require another 
Management. 
This we have given before. _ 
The whole Kitchen Ground will require at this 
Time to be carefully weeded, and the young 
Crops muft have frequent Waterings. 
Caterpillars and Snails muft be pick’d off the 
Plants, or deftroy’d in their lurking Places; and 
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the Ground clear’d. as faft as the Crops go off, 
EDEN: 
