Monthly Memoranda. — 175 



Continue "spotting" (transplanting) tomato seedlings. 



Apply nitrate of soda to the early crops. 



Sow peppers in hot-bed. 



Whitewash sashes of greenhouses, etc., to protect plants 

 from excess of light and heat. Begin hardening off the earliest 

 tomato plants. 



Market earliest crops — spinach, bunch, onions, radishes, 

 lettuce. 



MAY. 



For succession sow radishes, beets, peas ; also cabbages and 

 cauliflowers for late crop. By middle of month sow mangels for 

 stock, carrots and salsify for main crop. 



After first week of month sow seed of beans, cucumbers, 

 melons, corn and lima beans. 



After middle of month set tomatoes, peppers and sweet 

 potatoes in open ground. 



Plant common potatoes. 



Mellow the soil around plants set last month, to keep them 

 growing vigorously. 



Keep celery bed well cultivated and free from weeds. 



Market early crops — onions from sets, lettuce, radishes, 

 spinach, beets, cabbages, earliest peas. 



JUNE. 



Plant peppers, tomatoes, egg-plants, sweet and white potatoes, 

 winter beets, late cauliflowers and cabbages. 



Clear ground of early spring crops — onions, radishes, lettuce, 

 spinach, etc. — and prepare it for second crops. 



Keep celery plants growing vigorously by frequent cultiva- 

 tion. Thin plants as needed. 



Thin carrots, beets, onions from seed, parsnips, salsify. 



Stir the surface of soil frequently among all crops. 



Poison the potato beetles and slugs. 



Plant cucumbers for pickles. 



Set celery plants for early crop. 



Market radishes, lettuce, onions, celery, cabbage and other 

 vegetable plants, peas, string-beans, cauliflower, etc 



JULY. 



Finish marketing early crops, clearing and preparing the 

 land for succeeding crops. 



Plant out late cauliflowers, cabbages, peppers. 



Plant tomatoes on the discarded strawberry patch. 



Set celery for main and late crops. 



Sow seed of winter radish, early beet for winter, ruta-bagas, 

 turnips ; last oi month kale, spinach. 



