HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
MUSTARD 
T HE broad-leaved sorts of recent introduction have 
helped greatly to popularize mustard as both a salad 
and as “greens.” As a salad, it is used sparingly, mostly 
to give added piquancy to “flat” salads. 
For greens, the seeds are sown thinly, in rows, twelve 
to eighteen inches apart and covered one-quarter inch 
deep. Seedlings are thinned out to stand four inches 
and later eight inches apart. Plants must be used be- 
fore flower buds appear which cause the leaves to become 
of strong flavor. Sow short rows repeatedly up to May. 
Elephant Ear grows light green leaves with white 
ribs. In rich soil, each plant of this sort should be given 
at least twelve inches in the row since leaves will grow 
eighteen inches to two feet in length. 
Fordhook Fancy is a beautiful curly-leaved sort of 
dark green color. Cooked like spinach, is of fine flavor. 
Southern Giant Curled , shown above, is the most widely 
grown sort in all sections. 
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