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August, 1913 



Vegetable Oardei\ 



Notes for August. 



Finish planting Asparagus as 

 earlv as possible. Try a late 

 sowing of dwarf Broad Beans. 

 Make sowings of French Beans, a 

 protected position with a sunny 

 aspect will suit them best. Sow 

 Silver and Red Beet. Late plant- 

 ings of Cabbages and Cauliflowers 

 mav be made' but they will do no 

 good in po'or ground. Carrots 

 mav still be sown. Earth up 

 Celerv and keep the plants grow- 

 ing with liquid manure between 

 the rows. Herbs, Salads, Xet- 

 tuce, Parsley, etc., should, be sown 

 and planted out. A late plant- 

 ing of Onions mav be tried. Sow 

 a few Parsnips. Peas may be 

 sown for the late crop. Plant 

 Potatoes. Rhubarb roots should 

 be planted this month in very 

 rich soil. Seakale requires the 

 same treatment. Make a sowing 

 of Swcf^t Com. 



— Asparagus. — 



Salt mav not be necessary as 

 a dressing for Asparagiis beds, hnt 

 it is an old practice and certainly 

 does no harm. Use a good hand- 

 ful to the square vard. Also ap- 

 plv a good sprinkling of wood- 

 ashes, together with, sav, a hand- 

 ful or % !b. of superphosphate to 

 each square vard, and lightly fork 

 the surface. ^Vhen the shoots be- 

 gin to grow take i oz. of nitrate 

 of soda, or sulnhate nmmouia, for 

 each square yard, and dissolve it 

 in I gallon of water, and annly 

 with a wateriuo- can e^'enlv. Thus 

 for a bed of i8 ft. long and t, ft. 

 wide, vou reo^M^e 6 ozs. "^f sulnhate 

 of am.monia. This quantity should 



not be exceeded, ljut applications 

 can be given at intervals -of three 

 weeks or a mouth. Kee;) the beds 

 clean from' weeds. 



— French Beans. — 



French Beans, like most other 

 vegetables, delight in a rich, mel- 

 low soil. If a good supply of 

 stable or other natural manure is 

 not available, the ground to be 

 sown should be given a good dress- 

 ing of artificial manure. Apply 

 from one quarter to one half 

 pound of superphosphate or bone- 

 dust to each square yard of the 

 bed surface. Kven where .stable' 

 manure has been used, a supple- 

 mentary but lifi-btet^ dressing of 

 artificial will be of u.se. For early 

 crops the beds should be raised 

 above the general level and should 

 if possible, be protected from the 

 south. A northern aspect or 

 slope is best. Some gardeners 

 run up slight ridges and sow the 

 beans on the s"nny side, others 

 keep the surface dusted with soot. 

 Anvthine which will increase and 

 preserve the warmth of the ground 

 is helpful towards an early crop. 

 Later crops, on the other hand, 

 are benefited bv suui^eu bed's or 

 trenches and urotection from the 

 hot winds. The usual distances 

 fon sowing are six inches aPart in 

 double rows, each double row be- 

 injr % ft. from, the next, or four 

 inches apart in .sinn-le rows 2 ft. 

 apart. 



— Tomatoes, Cucumbers, etc. — 



Tomatoes, Cucumbers, and allied 

 plants, will still need a hot bed 

 to secure sat''='^'3'"+'^r^- TprmiTiation 

 and considerable caro in hardening 



when they are up. "Unlessi these 

 seedlings make vigorous and con- 

 tinuous growth they seldom 

 amount to much, and later sown 

 plants usually overtake tdem. The 

 same thing -applies to Melons, 

 Marrows, Pumpkins, Squashes, 

 etc., espedia/lly the former, wkich 

 are very easily checked. Kgg 

 plant. Capsicum, and Cape Goose- 

 berry, are al.so growable with 

 care. 



— Table Maize. — 



Sow a few rows of table maize 

 at the end of the month where 

 late frost is not to be expected. 

 The soil should be rich', 'deep, light, 

 and well prepared. Rows may be 

 30 to 36 in. apart, and plants 

 T'2 in. apart ; or they may be in 

 hills — three plants to a hill, and 

 the hills 3 ft. apart. Hoe frequent- 

 ly, but not more than 2 m. deep. 

 Soak the seed before sowing, and 

 give each hill or row a good 

 soaking with water directly 

 after sowing. Table maize, or 

 " sweet com," as the Americans 

 call it, is one f^f most com- 

 monly used and highly esteemed 

 vegetables in the United States. 



— Potatoes. — 



To get an even sample of good 

 sized tubers to each potato root, 

 the sets should be s" routed before 

 planting and not more than two 

 shoots be allowed to develop, for 

 specially fine tubers onlv one 

 should be left.. If not done before 

 plautinT t'1i'° -i"^"""- »+'.-^.5 r>->n ^~r. 

 thinned out when they showed 

 above the ground.. , Those doubtful 

 of the difference made should test 

 the matter for themselves, and 

 indpie bv results. The same thing 

 applies to Jerusalem artichokes. 



— Cape Gooseberries. — 



When well grown, the Cape 

 Gooseberry or Penni-ui Cherry, as 



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