The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
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Carrots, Parsnips, Salsify

As rule more food can be grown on small area from the so-called root crops than any other of our gardensvege- tables. The root crops include radishes, beets. carrots. parsnips salsify and tur- nips. Of these beets and carrots are of the greatest value The culture of the various root crops is very much tho same, as they require a deep. rich soil. plenty of fertility and frequent shallow cultivation. The following suggestions are furnished by department of agricui- ture garden specialists:
 Beets can be planted extremely early. In sowing the seed. open lttle fufrow rot more than an inch or an inch and "a half in depth. Space the seed bails, each of which contains two or three seeds two inches apart Cover an irva deep and if the ground is little dr}. firm over the seed with the back of -the hoe If the seed is fresh, each -of the seed balls will produce two or thres plants which must be thnned to an even stand O. one plant every two or three
 inches. Later every other plant can be pulled ont and usedl for greens or as baby beets leaving the, plants stand four
 inches apart to rnature large beets, fin
 most sections a late planting may be made to grow the, beets for winter stpr- age.
 Carrot seed soon .oses its Vitality. and
 for that reason should be strictly fresh: that is. it should be seed gtowh the previous yearfi Carrug seed shuuid bs to the foot atrd should not he covered quite so deep gas the seed of beets After covering. the strface directly over the row should beJ gently raked to remove any
 clods. If tlfe Seedlings do not come too l thickly in gthe row, the thinning may | I. l large enough to use as baby carrots.
 Then thesT'lnay ,hey tbinned and, those leftl ! r the rdM Allowed to' nature As a rule, | however, some thinning will have to
 be done just as soon as the carrots are
 up good.8 & .gJ "a a ftd h1GE t1n Parsnips are grown in exactly the same
 manner as cArrots.t except thati they
 needi to1abe athinned to at least farce | inches apart in the row. and four orr five | inches is fbetter, espeeially on rich SOIL l Parsnips fneesIl gnoteb be planted nquite as early as tearrots and require full sea | son for their growth throughoutg most 1 stsstesosih fiqm NyFssu Ha0 hef 80I anf | innthe south.i they mayibe planted aNfte
 early and,used las a. spring vegetable sbe- | fore the hot weather besinssq ParSnps | are not especially adapted to growing as laalate fall or winter vegetable inl the ldsopth. elthoughbya fairoderop naNisbe | ligrowna in ease there is enough moiStltre flit the Roll during theDiate summer 10 est 1.-the dseed started, TheY may be 1lett rl
 thes gneund and allowed ato freeze a9r
 ma.y be- dug during late fall and stored | In the. cellar, u W hen stored in thescellar bit issnecessarY, however,. to cover them lwith moist sand ito prevent them fram sslTivelingolThea seed of both carrots and
 narsnips is produced the second iyeats ly l5Salsify,bo or vegetable oyster, is grewn tlikeaparsnips, except that the plants are allowed to1 stand about two oIf thyee 4 inches apart in the reH, SaistfN may ne~ ' main in the ground all winter or may
 be dug and, stored in hexesf ofsmoist sand
 iE the cellar, ss,lsaa, TeS .,aF aaaifev