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Asparagus and herbs

... Asparagus and herbs by Mary Easton DURING THE all-too-brief season when asparagus is plentiful most of us would choose it for the household menu as often as possible. Here is one suggestion for a useful summer dish. Ingredients for the pastry case are ...

How to Make an Asparagus Bed

... How to Make an Asparagus Bed By Our Horticultural Correspondent THERE are several reasons why asparagus has never become so popular as the average run of home-grown vegetables. Conservatism in the habits and tastes of the British race, the length of time ...

Salient Points For The Vegetable Grower: April Is The Time To Plant Asparagus

... Salient Points For The Vegetable Grower April Is The Time To Plant Asparagus By Our Horticultural Correspondent IT is very nice to get a few vegetable seeds into the ground by the end of February or the first week in March--a row or two of peas, the onions ...

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Week- End Cottage Into Market Garden

... mostly lettuces radishes onions and spinach. They are hoping for good crops of beans, peas, marrows, tomatoes mushrooms and asparagus. Purchases from the local cottages augment the girls own crops, for they can sell far more in London than they can grow. ...

Practical and Timely Hints

... Soot water, which serves a dual purpose stimulant and insecticide can also be obtained in a similar manner. Asparagus Cutting from the asparagus- beds should now be discontinued. The failure of the roots to produce strong heads is often attributable to ...

LADIES IN THE COUNTRY XVIII

... of thefr flowers wearied her because she did not kno\ 9 many. y Does not it seem curious Now I cow-V hours making a new asparagus bed, or prunin garden is at all times a source of infinite delig know you find it so too, though you always we to seek spring ...

The Next Fortnight: Hardening Off

... earlier it sometimes runs to seed prematurely. Sowing and general culture at this stage is similar to that for parsnips. Asparagus and rhubarb crowns are scarce and rather expensive. If you can afford to wait two or three years for these crops, raising ...

Tennis Court to Kitchen Garden

... most other places, though a load or two will be dug into ground to be occupied by such permanent things as rasp berries, asparagus, etc. Time and Soot Dressing The whole plot will be given a top dressing of lime to sweeten the soil and kill any pests in ...