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Your Saturday Afternoon Garden 
(Continued from page 25) 
used. The same method can be used suc¬ 
cessfully with beans, cucumbers and other 
tender things. A load or so of marsh hay 
can be bought in most localities very 
cheaply, and used for this purpose during 
September and put over the strawberry 
bed and perennial onions and spinach for a 
winter mulch in November. 
One of the most important of the gar¬ 
den jobs for August is tending the celery 
crop; the earliest varieties, if they were 
planted early and have been well cultivated 
since, should be ready for the table some 
time this month. And although the stalks 
are never of the same crisp, nutty quality 
as those which have been cured in cold 
weather, nevertheless a medium quality 
celery is better than none at all, and natu¬ 
rally every gardener wants to have some 
to use as soon as possible. As soon as the 
plants become large enough so that there 
seems to be a tendency on the part of the 
stalks to spread out rather than to grow 
upright, the first step towards blanching, 
which is known as “handling,” should be 
taken. After cultivating thoroughly be¬ 
tween the rows, so that the soil is well 
loosened up, with the hand hoe or the 
wheel-hoe, the rows should be hilled; then 
go over them again, working the soil a 
little more closely around each plant, so 
that the stalks will be held together and 
upright. To complete the blanching, how¬ 
ever, still further treatment is necessary; 
this further blanching may be done with 
earth, boards or the more modern and 
convenient method of bleaching by the use 
of tubes of tough opaque paper, which are 
placed about each plant. In blanching 
with earth it will pay, if more than a few 
dozen plants are grown, to get a regular 
celery hoe, designed to do quick and ef¬ 
ficient work in drawing the soil around the 
plants. They must be banked on either 
side high enough, so that nothing is left 
exposed to the light except the foliage at 
the top of the stalk. If the work can be 
done after a rain or after irrigating while 
the soil is moist it will be very much easier ; 
but the plants should not be disturbed 
while they are still wet, as this is apt to 
spread the disease known as celery rust. 
Where boards are employed they should 
be used to cover the stalks up to the foli¬ 
age ; one is placed on either side of the 
row and then some dirt worked up to the 
bottom to exclude any light which might 
get underneath. The stalks are held to¬ 
gether at the top with broad wire staples 
or fastened with stout cord twisted around 
nails near the edge. Only the few plants 
needed for immediate use should be 
blanched at one time. Some varieties are 
much easier to blanch than others, but a 
week or ten days will usually be sufficient. 
The new celery bleacher consists of a 
hinged metal tube, which can be rapidly 
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clamped about a plant of celery, holding 
the stalks firmly together. Over this a 
paper tube is slipped; the metal tube is 
then drawn out, leaving the plant in a neat, 
clean casing which may be used over 
again as soon as the plant so treated is 
sufficiently blanched. With this any num¬ 
ber of plants desired, or the biggest plants, 
in the row may be bleached at one time. 
Celery is blanched in the garden until 
the first hard frosts. After that the part 
of the crop designed for winter use is 
taken up and either stored in trenches or 
in the cellar and the blanching is accom¬ 
plished by the method of storing. The 
stalks which keep the best for winter use 
are the green variety of celery, such as 
Giant Pascal, Winter Queen, Evans’ Tri¬ 
umph, and so forth, all of which must 
be blanched, in order to be of good table 
quality, much more thoroughly than the 
earlier sorts like Silver Self Blanching, 
Golden Self Blanching and White Plume. 
The chief point to observe now in grow¬ 
ing the part of the crop wanted for winter 
is to keep the soil worked up to it suf¬ 
ficiently, so that the stalks will grow in an 
upright position. When this is done it can 
easily be packed away in the trenches or 
boxes for winter storage. 
A number of other fall crops require 
special care in one way or another before 
they are ready for use. Watch the cauli¬ 
flowers carefully, and as soon as the heads 
are two inches or so in diameter tie up the 
leaves at the tip so that they will keep 
white and tender. Cos lettuce should be 
loosely tied up, in order that the hearts may 
be of the finest quality. Endive should be 
blanched by tying up or with two boards 
placed A-shape over the row a week or 
so before it is used. A good plan for the 
small garden is to get a dozen or so 8" 
pots. By using these over and over again, 
just as you use the celery bleachers, as 
described above, a succession of nicely- 
bleached heads may be had with very little 
trouble, and the largest ones may be picked 
out for the earliest use. If the tops are 
cut out of the Brussels sprouts as soon 
as the stalks begin to form the strength 
of the plant will go into the root, rather 
than into the clump of leaves at the top. 
August is likely to be the critical time 
with the melon crop; the greatest pest is 
the striped cucumber beetle; he gets them 
going and coming, as he not only does 
serious damage himself, but carries with 
him the germs of the worst melon disease, 
and lays eggs from which come the small 
worms which often kill the plants by at¬ 
tacking the roots. Tf he puts in an ap¬ 
pearance a combined insecticide and fun¬ 
gicide spray or dust should be used. But 
if only a few hills are grown, try knocking 
the first beetles that appear into a can of 
kerosene and water with a small paddle. 
Early in the morning they are usually not 
very active and can easily be got. Look 
carefully for them in the half-opened 
flowers, which are one of their favorite 
hiding places. 
