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your own particular garden. The plants will then 
be of a suitable size for transplanting by the time the 
early part of the garden has been plowed. If the 
sashes are covered with old carpets or straw on cold 
nights, it will be a great saving of the heating power 
of the manure and will prevent the young plants 
from being chilled. The young plants should be 
treated to fresh air whenever the outside temperature 
is not too cold, that they may not become “ drawn,” 
or “ spindle up ” into long, slim stems. As planting- 
out time approaches, the young plants should be left 
uncovered as frequently as is safe, that they may 
become sufficiently hardy not to miss the covering 
when removed to the open ground. 
Tomatoes, peppers and egg plants and a second 
sowing of early cabbage should be sown in the same 
manner about the middle of March. If a few extra 
early plants are wanted, they can be transplanted 
into the earliest beds when the cabbage and other 
plants have been set out in the garden, and the sash 
again put on. If some sweet potatoes are buried 
about two inches deep in the dirt of one of the cab¬ 
bage frames, and kept warm, they will produce a fine 
lot of sprouts, or, as they are called, “ sets,” which 
can be broken off and planted in the garden when 
the weather has become sufficiently warm. If a 
number are wanted, or there is danger of their grow¬ 
ing too large, they can be taken off and “ heeled in ” 
in another sash until planting time, and the potatoes 
put back again, as they will produce two or three 
crops of the sets. Or a hill of cucumbers can be 
planted in the centre of each sash as a second crop, 
