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Pit Fall Winter: Summer and winter radishes take a longer time to mature, and are planted later. Winter radishes are sown from midsummer to early autumn, and when cold weather arrives they are topped, packed in damp sand, and stored in cool cellar or pit fall winter for fall and winter use. Most used summer variety are: white strasburg; winter varieties : Chinese rose and Chinese white winter, round black Spanish. Radishes are rich in vitamin C.
Supplemental feed is generally supplied on winter ranges, and in some areas sheep are fed hay for 100 days or more during the winter. Breeding usually occurs on the fall or winter ranges, and lambing on the winter feed lots or on the spring range. Shearing takes place in the spring either before or after lambing. Lambs are usually weaned and marketed for slaughter on leaving the summer ranges.
Two gardens in this book have no perimeters: The autumn and the winter garden. One reason is that many of the plants involved in each of the collections are bushes or trees that take more land to be adequately sited. The other reason is that the fall, like the winter in many parts of the country, is only a state of mind. My fall has colored leaves, morning mists, hunting season with sometimes a thin layer of snow upon the ground, and crisp, cold nights followed by days of intense blue skies patterned only slightly by clouds. |
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