=Plot A.=--Contains kale, spring broccoli, and leeks, a six-foot
breadth of ground where savoys and couve tronchuda stood must be
cleared and trenched and heavily manured as early in the month as
possible, as onions are to come here, a good dressing of lime and soot
forked into the top spit will do good. Nothing more can be done in this
plot during the month, beyond blanching chicory which still stands in
it.
=Plot B.=--Contains Brussels sprouts; if not already done during
December, the ground from which runner beans and cauliflower and
broccoli came last autumn, must now be trenched and manured, and a
dressing of superphosphate of lime, two ounces to the square yard,
should be forked into the top spit. If the weather be propitious two
double rows of broad beans may be sown across this ground now.
=Plot C.=--Contains spring cabbage, parsnips, salsify, and celery,
probably a row or two of chicory also, and may be conveniently left for
a month or six weeks until all but the first are cleared away.
=Permanent Crops.=--Seakale and rhubarb should have a few crowns of
each covered up with fern or clean straw for blanching and to induce
early growth.