124 The Kitchen Garden. [May. 



Cardoons. 



The cardoons which were fown In Mnrch, or April, 

 fhould now be thinned v/here they have rifen too thick, 

 that the plants may have room to grow and get llrength 

 by next month, when they fhould be planted where they 

 ape to be blanched. 



Thefe plants fhould now be thinned to about four or five 

 inches dillance; or, if you choofe it, you may now prick 

 out the plants that diflance on a nurfery-bed, to remain 

 fill next month, when the whole fhould be tranfplanted 

 Anally. 



Defiroying Weeds. 



Now let more than common care be taken to deflroy 

 weeds, among crops of every kind, and in every part 

 throughout the ground. 



There is no work in the kitchen garden that requires 

 more attention now than this ; for weeds are at no time 

 more dangerous to crops than the prefent. It fhould, there- 

 fore, be one of the principal works in this ground to deflroy 

 them before they grow large. For weeds, when permitted 

 to grow to any bignefs, not only exhauft the goodnefs cf the 

 ground, and ruin the prefent crops, but art aifo a very dif- 

 agreeable fight, and require more than double labour to 

 <^\'i2.r the ground of them. 



Bat, in particular, let the crops of onions, leeks, carrots, 

 parineps, lettuce, and all other fmall crops that growpretty 

 <h fe, be timely cleaned from weeds. That is, let the' 

 weeds be cleared away before they begin to fpread, or over- 

 top the plants ; which they would foon do, when once they 

 begin to run j and in that cafe would do much damage to 

 the crops. 



Befides, when weeds are fufFered to grow large, among 

 any fmall crops, fo as to mix and entangle with one another, 

 and with the plants, it renders the work of hoeing or weed- 

 ing them extremely tedious, and vtry troublefome to 

 perform. 



But when weeds appear between rows of peas, beans, and 

 Lidney-beans, cabbages and cauliflowers, and fuch other 

 crops as ftand diftant in rows, there can be nothing more 

 cafy thah to il:op their progrefs, becaufe there is room be- 

 tween the plants to admit a large hoe ; and with fuch an 

 inflrument a perfon may go over a large piece of ground 



