THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



Sept. clearing ground of mature or exhausted crops goes on 

 I-15 steadily. 



Celery. — The main crop may be encouraged by giving 

 water and liquid manure, and also by tying. There is 

 no necessity for earthing yet, as frost is unlikely, and 

 the plants will grow faster without soil about them than 

 with it. 



Endive and Lettuce. — The progress of plants in seed 

 rows can be expedited by thinning and hoeing. The 

 most forward plants can be put out a foot apart. 



Onions. — Small Onions, grown from seed sown out 

 of dd^rs in spring, will ripen quickly if they are drawn 

 from the soil and left lying in the sun for a few days ; 

 but much larger plants, resulting from seed sown under 

 glass in winter, and planted in very deep, rich soil in 

 April, will need more attention. They cannot be left 

 safely unchecked after the middle of the month, because 

 if the weather should turn wet they would be liable to 

 start growing afresh, and that would be disastrous. If 

 they have got a very firm hold of the soil owing to the 

 roots having struck down deeply, they can be checked by 

 bending the bulbs sideways day after day, thus breaking 

 the roots by degrees. This, combined with laying over 

 the tops, will bring growth to a standstill. If the bulbs 

 are very large they will require a good deal of ripening, 

 and had better be exposed to all the sunshine that there 

 is throughout September, but put under cover at night, 

 and in wet weather. 



Potatoes. — What is called supertuberation, or second 

 growth, in Potatoes, consists in the production of small 

 new tubers at the end of the season, when the plants 

 have apparently finished growing and matured their crop, 

 or in fresh outgrowths on the large tubers. In the latter 

 form it is particularly objectionable, because it practically 

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