Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-30
Winter Preservation of Vegetables.

ACTING on knowledge of the harden |
ing effects of autumn transplanting, gar
deneIs have from time immemOrial prac- |
ticed it with winter lettuces as well as
caulihower, and lin cold districts) even |
with cabbage plants intended for early |
spring planting, well knowing that, if |
left in the seed d-beds, they have little or
no chance of enduring throughout the |
winter. In very cold upland localities, |
the transplanting of full-grown broccoli |
in November is regularly practised, as be- |
ing the only economical mode of securing
a supply of that best of spring culinary
brassice; and in still more inclement high |
country districts, the same mode is adopt |
ed for preserving savoys, cabbages,
sprouts, the fine yellow but somewhat
delicate varieties of German greens, and
even Tang kale," which, by being so
treated, are preserved almost as certainly
as the untransplanted crops of the same
kinda in the iUast innlement low -ooun
try districts In extremely severe sea
sons, low-country gardeners, who may
have entirely lost their crops from not
having adopted the precaution of trans
planting at least a portion of them, are
scarcely excusable when they offer to their
employers, as the reason for the loss, that
'the awfully severe frost did it, and they
! For the benefit of inexperienced anna
teurs and others, the mode of procedure
in transplanting fullgrown broccoli and
other vegetables in November is here
given Having selected the ground for
! them, which may either be that in which
/ they have grown, or some other more dry
and sheltered place, choose dry weather
| for the work. Commence by forming a
trench of sufficient depth; then take up
the plants carefully allowing as much as
possible of the earth to remain attached
TO their roots, and strip off any decaying
OF withered leaves. Place them in the
trench rs nearly upright as possible, at such
distances that the eXtremities of their
leaves will stand about three inches clear,
and so deep that from one tOtwo inches of
the lower portions of the leaf stems will be
under the levelled ground surface. Hav-
ing thus completed the first row, turn in
the earth and form the next trench at
such distance as to allow of the plants
standing about six inches clear of those
in the first row, that free circulation of
air be allowed around them, and proceed
thus till finished. The direction of the
rows is not of much importance, but
nearly south and north is preferable, more
especially when shelter lines of branches
are to be formed, as after explained. For
late spring broccoli, which grow much
between the return of warm weather and
the time of their heading, it is advisable
to place layer of good rich manure un-
der the plant, covering il with two or
three inches of soil, so that the roots may
not reach it till after killing frosts are
past this will insure larger heads, and
also somewhat prolong the period of their
maturing. Similar modes of proceeding
| ala liaa 10 70 9th lii 1a ni
brassc9. Late celery is another preca
rious winter crop which may be treated
in a somewhat similar manner. Much
, trouble as well as expense in rearing will
be saved if it is grown on the surface of q
richly y-manured ground, instead of il
trenches, and only as much earth drawn
up about the base Of the plants, four ol
five weeks previously, as to secure then
, against wind, and give their foliage o
compact upright set. In transplanting
the full-grOwn plants, they should, o.
course, be held quite upright, and the
leaves held closely as well as roundly to
) gether, till the earth is placed and com
pacted about them. Parsley, spinach
/ leeks, late turnips, parsnips, etc, may alsC
a be better preserved throughout the
| whole winter by transportation, modi
' fed somewhat from the previously de
scribed modes, according to their differ
, ent requirements. In the flower garden
stocks, wall flowers, and other luXuriant
growing, soft-wooded plants may be ben
[ eficially treated in a somewhat simila
5 manner, especially when their growth il
e over-excited by unusually mild autumn
weather.
4 In regard to the best exposures fo
!, wintering culinary vegetables, as well a
other plants, those lying between soutl
e and southwest are to be preferred, unles
influenced by local and exceptiona
Q causes, as they are less rapidly acted upol
K by the suns rays in clear frosty weathe
than more easterly and northerly expos
ures, as well as less liable to the suddel
returns OF evening and night frosts
It Walls which face the south reflect mos
/. OF the suns heat, and southerly lying wa
borders are deemed indispensable for Gu
l mary crops; but they are most efiectiv
o when rows of branch hedges are ru
across them, so as to protect the crop
e alike from the early suns rays and th
n sweeping winds of winter and spring
o against which walls afford but little pre-
4 lection, unless when situated transversel
to the wind current. These branch hedge
are also of great service when run in
) northerly and southerly direction through
l. out breaks of broccoli as well as othe
l. winter brassic9, etc, at distances OF sa
IS six TO ten feet apart. A modification {
these, in the shape of pea-stakes, are veT
Y serviceable when securely set between th
,e double rows of early peas, which can t
N best done when sowing the latter. In a
cases deciduous branches are better fC