Fall Work in the Garden 



Lettuce, endive, spinach, Swiss chard, Chinese 

 cabbage, and radishes seed freely the first year, 

 beets, carrots, salsify, parsnips and turnips the 

 second year and the mature vegetables must be 

 planted in the spring to produce seed. If there 

 are good roots of carrots and beets, these may be 

 stored in sand in the cellar and planted out in 

 the spring when they will bloom and produce 

 seed. The parsnips and salsify left in the ground 

 may be dug in the spring and reset where they 

 are to bloom and a few plants will give sufficient 

 seed for the home garden. The seed from the 

 best tomatoes should have been saved, a few 

 melons, cucumbers and egg-plants allowed to 

 ripen and the finest of the red peppers saved for 

 seed. The sweetest and driest of the winter 

 squash should have its seed set aside for the 

 coming year. Even should there prove to be 

 an abundance of seed this saving will do no 

 harm ; the raising of seed of biennial vegetables is 

 interesting and should there be a real scarcity 

 of seed one will be very thankful of the fore- 



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