In this latitude and southward I should prefer autumn;
northward, perhaps spring is the best season. Keep the intervening
ground clean and mellow, and pull no stalks the first year, unless
it be in the autumn if the plants have become very strong. In the
fall, when the foliage has died down, cover the crowns with two or
three shovelfuls of rich manure--any kind will do in this
instance--and work in a heavy top-dressing all over the ground
early in spring. Unless seed is required, always cut down the
seed-stalks as soon as they appear. The best early variety is the
Linnaeus. The Victoria is a little later, but much larger, and is
the kind that I have usually grown.
Radish-seed may be sown one inch deep as soon as the ground is dry
enough in spring, and if the vegetable is a favorite, the sowing
may be repeated every two weeks. A common error is to sow the seed
too thickly. A warm, RICH soil is all that is necessary to secure
a crop.
What has been said about radishes applies equally to early
turnips, with the exception that the plants when three inches high
should be thinned so as to stand four inches apart. The ground for
these vegetables should be very rich, so as to secure a very rapid
growth; for otherwise they are attacked by a little white worm
which soon renders them unfit for use.
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