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Show SOWING SEEDS TOO THICKLY Practice Should Be Discouraged aa Overcrowding Undermines Cultivation Culti-vation of Plants. (By W. E. GILBERT.) Thick sowing must be guarded against. Each seed should have room to grow without crushing or injuring its neighbor. Over-crowding undermines the culti- vation of plants at the start and it is long before, if ever, they outgrow it. Of course, small plants or seeds may be sown more thickly than the larger ones, but relatively they ought really not to be sown thicker. Each plant should have sufficient room to develop its coyledons and one leaf before it is thinned or pricked out. Every year vegetable crops are much injured by being sown too thickly and perhaps it is hardly too much to affirm that most gardeners would be the gainers were only half the seed sown that there is now. As to what to. sow the seed in, the lighter the seed bed the better. Few seeds will vegetate in a lower temperature than 40 degrees and in the range of 20 degrees all seeds will grow. |