A YEAR'S GARDENING 



Pickling Onions, sow any time up to June, sowing the seed thickly 

 and leaving the plants unthinned. 



PARSLEY may be sown at almost any time, but this month is 

 favomrable for sowing a supply for summer and autumn. Sow 

 broad-cast and thin out gradually. 



PARSNIPS. Sow finaUy this month. 



PEAS. Sow again for succession, choosing the tall-growing 

 kinds and planting the rows a good distance apart. 



POTATOES. If the main crop was not put in last month, there 

 is no time to be lost now. 



RADISHES. Sow for succession in the open ground. 



SALSIFY. Sow during this month and next, in deep drills about 

 15 inches apart. The ground should have been dug and trenched, 

 with manure at the bottom of the trench only. The roots wiU strike 

 down iilto the manure and grow a good size. 



SPINACH may still be sown, both the usual kind and the 

 Spinach-beet. 



STRAWBERRIES. Clean the old beds and give a dressing of 

 decayed leaves and soot. Also a good watering if the weather be 

 dry. 



TURNIPS. Sow for succession, and thin out those ahready 

 growing. 



VEGETABLE MARROW. Sow in pots under glass, and as soon 

 as the plants form a leaf pot singly and return to the frame to be 

 re-established. The plants should be gradually accustomed to the 

 open air and planted out about the end of May. 



MAY 



The work of May closely resembles that of April, except that the 

 high pressure at which it has to be maintained should be increased 

 rather than lessened. Where a crop has failed it is not too late to 

 remedy matters, perhaps, but not a moment is to be lost. The heat 

 of the earth is often suiiicient to start seeds that a month or so earher 

 would have needed artificial heat, so that where a hot-bed is an 

 impossibility, May is a month for sowing many things ordinarily set 

 down for March or April. But whether in seed-sowing or trans- 

 planting, great care must stUl be exercised, for while the sun by day 



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