The Gardener's Calendar 



suds. When you clear up the garden in fall, 

 put all the stalks and other refuse into the 

 compost-heap. In this way you will soon have 

 a lot of good, rich soil without its costing you 

 anything but a little labor. It is a good plan 

 to add sand to it, muck, old sods, from time 

 to time, — anything that will become fine and 

 mellow after being worked over with other 

 material. The compost-heap will give you just 

 the kind of soil you need for early seed-sowing, 

 and hot-bed use. 



Sweet potatoes should be dug as soon as the 

 frost has killed their tops. Dry off well in the 

 sim, for two or three days, and store in a warm 

 place, or pack in dry sand. Be sure that it is 

 very dry, if you would have the tubers keep 

 well. Home-grown ones that have thoroughly 

 ripened will be found to be of much finer flavor 

 than those which were dug while partially 

 green, and have come a long distance to market. 



OCTOBER 



Potatoes should be dug this month. Reject 

 any tuber which is not perfectly healthy. It is 

 a good plan to grade them, as you gather them, 

 that is, throw out all not large enough for 



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