They should take very good heed, and be apprehensive lest unwittingly they write off the sacred mysteries and dissolve them into winds and streams and sowings and ploughings and passions of earth and changes of seasons.
The seeds can be more evenly distributed by two sowings than by one, however skilled and practised the sower may be; and the second sowing should cross the first at right angles.
Spring sowings are specially subject to the vicissitudes of the season.
But the numerous sowings which I have mentioned will afford you so many chances, so many opportunities of having fine weather, that the risk about weather would necessarily be very small.
For early use, sowings are sometimes made in November; but the general practice is to sow the seed in April, as soon as the frost is out of the ground, or as soon as the soil can be worked.
Plants from sowings made the first of May will blossom the last of June, and yield pease for use the middle of July.
For a succession, sowings may be made, at intervals of two weeks, from the last of April to the last of August.
Early in March, or as soon as the weather becomes a little mild, remove the covering, and the plants will keep the table supplied until the leaves from fresh sowings shall be grown sufficiently for cutting.
Early sowings will give a supply for the table in about ten weeks.
If planted and grown in the summer months, the crop will be ready for harvesting in eleven weeks; and sowings for the ripe seeds may be made till the beginning of July.
Early sowings succeed best; as the seeds, which are generally more or less imperfect, vegetate much better when the earth is moist than when dry and parched, as it is liable to become when the season is more advanced.
Sow from the last of April to the last of May; but early sowingssucceed best.
Sowings are consequently required for each month: those intended for the spring supply being made from December to February; about twelve weeks being required for its full development, when reared in the winter months.
Plants from early sowings will blossom in eight weeks, the young pods will be sufficiently grown for use in ten weeks, and the crop will ripen in a hundred and eight days.
The first sowing should be made early; afterwards, sowings should be made at intervals of two or three weeks, which will secure for the table a constant supply of fresh and tender heads from July till winter.
This may be sown from the first of April to the 20th of May; but early sowings succeed best.
The earliest sprouts become fit for use in November, and they continue good, or even improve in quality, till the month of March following; by successive sowings the sprouts are obtained for the greater part of the year.
Two sowings are made, in the middle of June and in July, and the seedlings are planted a foot or 15 in.
Yet much later, even such an intelligent man as Oettelt inveighed against the weeding out of the birch in spruce sowings because “nature prefers variety, with which preference it is not good to interfere.
As long as the old method of extracting the seed in hot stoves or ovens prevailed, conifer sowings gave but indifferent results.
Sowings should be made in the garden from April to October, at short intervals.
To have a supply through the early months, sowings should be made every two weeks.
Succession of sowings must be made, as it runs quickly to seed.
Illustration: Sweet Pea] A succession of sowings may be made at intervals through May and June, and a fair fall crop obtained if care is taken to water and mulch; but the best results will be secured with the very early planting.
They do not last the entire season, and successive sowings may well be made.
A succession of sowings should be made, at intervals of from two to three weeks, until late summer, as the Beets are much more desirable in their young stage than when they have become old and woody.
The early and late sowings should be of some loose-growing variety, as they are in edible condition sooner than the cabbage or heading varieties.
Beginning at one side of the garden and running the rows the short way (having each row 100 feet long) sowings may be made, as soon as the ground is in condition to work, of the following: Fifty feet each of parsnips and salsify.
If trellis or brush is to be avoided, frequent sowings of the dwarfs will maintain a supply.
The second advance is made on the completion of the sowings in November, and the final or Chook payment is made immediately after the delivery and weighing of the produce.
The exceptions only occur in high lands, in unusually propitious seasons, and ought never to be relied upon except when the earlier sowings have failed.
In dry seasons they have been known to give a crop when broadcast sowings have failed.
This seed time may be said to continue until the end of December, and the crops from these sowings often yield an average produce, if the lands are not very low and wet.
If they are, the sowing had better be delayed until January, or even February, for the crops from these latter sowings are usually the most productive, and the dye obtained from them the finest.
In Tirhoot the sowings commence about the latter end of February or the beginning of March, if by that time there is sufficient warmth in the atmosphere to ensure a healthy vegetation.
These autumnal sowings are called October sowings, from the month in which they generally commence.
The success of sowings during March and April is very doubtful.
At intervals of ten days the seedlings of the other two sowingsare removed.
By late May or early June the first sowings of summer vegetables will have been marketed and the ground ready for the sage.
Annual marjoram is managed in the same kind of way as to seeding and cultivation; but as the plant is tender, fresh sowings must be made annually.
The basal leaves of mustard are used for greens, and as the plants require but a short time to reach the proper stage for use frequent sowings should be made.
A little practice will soon determine when and how oftensowings should be made in order to escape frost and mature the crop at a time when it will be most useful.
We have here foursowings and one ripening--a sad proportion!
Roots from these sowings will, the next year, attain a size double that usually seen.
If the first two sowings fail, the last one will give the early crop.
The late sowings of Salsify are intended to remain undisturbed over winter.
A succession of sowings may be made at intervals through May and June, and a fair fall crop secured if care is taken to water and mulch; but the best results will be secured with the very early planting.
A succession of sowings should be made, at intervals of two to three weeks, until late summer, as the beets are much more desirable in their young stage than when they have become old and woody.
If trellis or brush is not to be used, frequent sowings of the dwarfs will maintain a supply.
The June and July sowings may be made where the plants are intended to remain.
Follow on withsowings in the open till the middle of September.
In the open ground the first sowing may be made about the third week in April, another sowing early in May, and subsequent sowings for succession every two or three weeks until the end of July.
Successional sowings should be made to the end of June, to produce a constant supply till Cauliflowers are ready.
To obtain bloom during the winter and spring successivesowings are necessary.
Autumn sowings will stand the winter and prove useful in early spring.
Three sowings may be made during the year: the first in spring for late summer and autumn use, the next in June for succession, and another in August or September for spring and early summer use.
Two or three sowings may be made also during the summer.
The quickest way to grow the perennial varieties from seed is to sow in a frame with a slight bottom-heat, at any time from March to August; but sowings made in the open from April to June will succeed.
A succession of bloom may be obtained by sowings made in August, October, and March.
In order to show how great the influence of all these little things may become, we only have to make two sowings on neighboring beds and under conditions which have carefully been made as equal as possible.
Any lot of seed exhibits such impurities, as I have had the opportunity of observing myself insowings in the experimental-garden.
Hoffman cultivated the white flax and many other varieties and Hofmeister extended his sowings [161] over thirty years with the white variety of the yellow foxglove (Digitalis parviflora).
They are ordinarily called pyramidal or fastigiate forms, and as far as their history goes, they arise suddenly in large sowings of the normal species.
Only gigas appeared but once, but then there is every reason to assume that in larger sowings or by a prolongation of the experiments it might have made a second appearance.
Consequently my sowingsof this plant have nearly always been made in the beds.
Such sowings can be made in one year, or can be extended over a series of years and of generations.
Only sowings of many hundreds or thousands of individuals are decisive.
So by yearly sowings you may always have good effects.
You see I keep making sowings every ten days in the coldframe, and transplanting.
In the fall the plants from summer sowings may be taken up with balls of earth on the roots and placed in the coldframes ready for use through the winter.
As the summer advances and as the early sowings of lettuce get old they tend to go to seed.
It is merely a warning to keep making new sowings in order that one may always have large, vigorous blooms.
If you makesowings pretty thick the tender tops may be used, and so the thinning process is done to advantage.
We have suggested that two sowings may be regarded as generally sufficient, but we are bound to take notice of the fact that the late supplies of these vegetables are sometimes disappointing.
Geums may also be raised from sowings made in June or July, and transplanting in due course to permanent quarters, in the manner usual with hardy perennials.
But sowingsmade at the end of the month will probably prosper.
Autumn sowings outdoors are often made in September or October where a warm soil and favourable situation can be insured.
The sowings from May to July should be small and numerous, and on rich moist land, to be aided, if needful, with water.
Two or three sowings are advisable to secure a succession of bloom, and for the first of them the middle of this month is the proper time.
Sowings of two or three sorts should be made partly in frames and partly on a dry open plot from which a crop has been taken.
Beans==, both Dwarf and Runner, may be sown about the middle of the month, to supply tender pods when those from the early sowings are past.
In March the first sowings on warm borders in the open garden may be made.
Sowings are sometimes made early in the year in greenhouses or frames; but as a rule it is a vain attempt.
It is easy work with a frame to have Mustard at any time; and many small sowings are better than large ones, which only result in waste to-day and want to-morrow.
Sow for succession where the plants are to remain, and plant out the earlier sowings at every opportunity.
Plant out those raised in frames, and earth up those from earlysowings that are forward enough.
The August sowings will soon be forward enough for putting out, and it will be advisable to get the work done as early as possible, to insure the plants being well established before winter.
In proportion to the means at command, earlysowings outdoors will live or die, as determined by the weather, although a very little protection is sufficient to carry the young plants through a bad time in the event of late frosts and storms.
They may also be grown entirely without the aid of artificial heat from sowings in June or July.
These are raised from seed by different sowings from the end of October till April, or the following month.
And the sowings should be continued at the distance of a fortnight, till the latter end of March, when they should be performed every ten days, until the end of April or beginning of the following month.
They should have a light fine mould, and the more early sowings be made on borders, under warm walls, or other similar places, and in frames covered by glasses.
August is apt to be too hot, October may be frosty, while spring sowingsare in my experience exceedingly delusive.
Not one plant, but dozens of plants, often hundreds of plants, may be the result of a single successful sowing, nor is the time lost by such sowings nearly as great as people seem to imagine.
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