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=Plot A.=--Sow salsify, one row, and two rows each of beet and carrots;

more can be sown of the last two if desired; these should all be a foot

apart.

=Plot B.=--Sow one row of kidney beans about the middle of the month,

sow dwarf second early peas (such as dwarf Marrow-fat) as soon as the

previous sowing shows up, prick out lettuce between the rows, about

thirty of a sort at a time.

=Plot C.=--Earth up the potatoes as they require it. Clear up the two

middle rows of spring cabbage, and open out a trench in the way of a

celery trench, fork in a handsome dressing of old manure and return the

earth to within five inches of the level of the ground, in preparation

for the Scarlet Runner beans.

=Frames.=--Sow celery early in the month. Sprouts, cauliflower,

broccoli, and leeks should be pricked out into boxes and gradually

hardened off. Plant out lettuce from the frames. Pot up tomatoes.

Towards the end of the month plant a couple of cucumber plants out, one

under each light of the frame. Repot vegetable marrows.

=Seed Bed.=--Sow winter and spring brassicas about the 7th. Make

successions sowings of lettuce and radishes.

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