Sept.] The Kitchen Garden. 42^ 



CM age Plants. 



The cabbage plants which were fown the fecoTid week 

 in Auguft for an early crop next fummer, fhould be 

 pricked out into nurfery beds. Some of the forwardeft 

 about the beginning, and the reft in the middle or lat- 

 ter end of this month. 



Choofe a piece of good ground for them in a Iheltered 

 fituation. Let it be well dug, and lay it out into beds 

 three feet and a half wide. 



Thin out the plants regularly from the feed-bed ; ob- 

 ferving to take the ftrongeft firlt : the fmalleft may be left 

 in the feed-bed a fortnight longer. 



Plant them in rows lengthways of the bed, about four 

 inches afunder in the row, and fix inches between the 

 rows ; clofethe ground well about their ftems, and leave 

 the furface fmooth between the plants. 



When you have finilhed planting give them fome wa- 

 ter; and if the weather is dry, repeat it twice or thrice 

 for the iirft week or ten days, by which time the plants 

 will have taken good root. 



Colenvorts. 



The firll or fecond week in this month, you fhould plant 

 out fome of the forwardeft of the cole-wort plants, 

 which were fown in the latter end of July and in Auguft, 

 into the place where they are to remain both for the au- 

 tumn and winter, and early fpring fervice : and in the 

 middle and latter end of the month, plant out the reil 

 for a general fpring crop. See July, &c 



Let thefe be planted in a free fituation of new-digged 

 ground, in rows fix or eight inches diftant in the row; 

 the rows fhould be ten or twelve inches afunder. They 

 will be fit for ufe, fome of them in Oftober and No- 

 vember of the firft plantation, the others will fucceed 

 them in regular order, both for winter and fpring fervice. 

 See the work of July. 



Plant Celery, 



Plant out more celery the beginning of this month 

 for a fucceflional winter crop, and about the middle and 

 latter end of the month plant out a late crop for fpring 

 fupplies. 



Make 



