256 Home Vegetable Gardening 



Fruit. Attend to spraying fruit trees and cur- 

 rants and gooseberries. Make pot-layers of straw- 

 berries for July setting. Page 227. 



JULY 



Maintain frequent, shallow cultivation. Set out 

 late cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, leeks and celery. 

 Sow beans, beets, corn, etc., for late fall crops. Irri- 

 gate where needed. 



Fruit. Pinch back new canes of blackberry, dew- 

 berry and raspberry. Rub off second crop of buds 

 on grapes. Thin out if too many bunches ; also on 

 plums, peaches and other fruit too thick, or touch- 

 ing. Pot-layered strawberries may be set out. 



AUGUST 



Keep the garden clean from late weeds — espe- 

 cially purslane, the hot-weather weed pest, which 

 should be always removed from the garden and 

 burned or rotted down. 



Sow spinach, rutabaga turnip, bush beans and 

 peas for last fall crop. During first part of month, 

 late celery may still be put out. Sow lettuce for 

 early fall crop, in frames. First lot of endive should 

 be tied up for blanching. 



Fruit. Strawberries may be set, and pot-layered 

 plants, if wanted to bear a full crop the following 

 season (see page 228), should be put in by the 15th 

 Thin out and bag grapes (page 246). 



