5 JUNE 1941, Page 14

In the Garden

Your celery trenches (not too deep) should be ready now. If they are fairly widely spaced remember that a quick-growing crop can be sown on the ridges: French breakfast-radish, short-horn carrot, Tom Thumb lettuce, dwarf-peas, seeds of biennials. Sow swedes now. They will stand the winter and yield excellent green tops in spring. And try at least one of the kales: asparagus, drumhead, labrador, Hungry Gap or another. All give excellent tender shoots in what is probably the most difficult period of the vegetable year—March to