In the Garden What to do with the greenhouse after
the tomatoes are harvested is a problem that worries a Westmorland correspondent. The answer, of course, depends on the size of the greenhouse and whether it is going to be heated or not. A greenhouse used to mean a greenhouse, but now, in thousands of gardens, it simply means a small, low-spanned, unheated box of glass. It carries three crops—spring seeds, summer tomatoes, autumn chrysanthemums. It can also, of course, earl spring bulbs in pans and boxes after the chrysanthemums are finished. It can also be used as an alpine house. But I feel fairly sure that 011 correspondent is wondering if it cannot carry a crop of vegetables The answer is that the management of winter vegetables under glass is a fairly expert business. Dampness and irregularity of temperatures are great difficulties ; the private greenhouse is too often hopeles* small ; the cloche and the frame will probably do just as much is) if not more than, the little greenhouse that looks too often like collection of picture-frames. This is only general advice, and is, I am aware, pretty frigid. But, then, so is a little greenhouse in Januar,.
H. E. BATES.
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