He said, "Stub your toe and spill half the seed
before sowing it; for scattered broadcast it is usually much too
thick." If this proves true, thin out the plants rigorously. This
turnip is good for table and stock as long as it is solid and
crisp; but it grows pithy toward spring. There are other kinds
well worth a trial.
Perhaps no vegetable is more generally appreciated than celery.
Like asparagus, it was once, and is still by some, regarded as a
luxury requiring too much skill and labor for the ordinary
gardener. This is a mistake. Few vegetables in my garden repay so
amply the cost of production. One can raise turnips as a fall crop
much easier, it is true; but turnips are not celery, any more than
brass is gold. Think of enjoying this delicious vegetable daily
from October till April! When cooked, and served on toast with
drawn butter sauce, it is quite ambrosial. In every garden evolved
beyond the cabbage and potato phase a goodly space of the best
soil should be reserved for celery, since it can be set out from
the first to the twentieth of July in our latitude; it can be
grown as the most valuable of the second crops, reoccupying space
made vacant by early crops. I find it much easier to buy my
plants, when ready for them, than to raise them. In every town
there are those who grow them in very large quantities, and, if
properly packed, quickly transported, and promptly set out in the
evening following their reception, and watered abundantly, they
rarely fail.
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