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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 28

Gardening Calendar for the Year

page 29

Gardening Calendar for the Year.

January.

Trench and manure, pre-pare hot-beds for asparagus, cucumbers, mint, potatoes, and the small salads. Sow the brown Dutch, and grand admiral cabbages, curled parsley for transplanting; frame peas, horn carrots, mazagan beans, onions (to be allowed to grow large).

February.

All the ground which is destined for early crops must now be prepared, and hot-beds be multiplied for cucumbers and early melons. Celery may be sown on a moderate hot-bed; also sow cabbages, horn carrots, lettuces, leeks, parsnips, radishes, the scarlet short-top is the best kind to put in now, and a few Bath or green Egyptian cos lettuces, and in fact most of the table vegetables. Those plants, such as cabbages, chives, garlic, shalots, under-ground onions, and horseradish, which are fit, should be transplanted.

March.

In open borders sow asparagus, cabbages, carrots, curled and Hamburgh parsley, Neapolitan kale, pars-nips, onions, &c.; plant out such vegetables as have been already sown. Before sowing, dig carefully, and make the ground level and fine. Main crops may be sown in this month, such as early long-pod beans, peas, celery, turnips, and, indeed, most other vegetables. Mustard, cress, lettuce, spinach, and radishes, may be sown every week or fortnight, for succession. Chives, shalots, garlic, &c., may be planted; plant rhubarb, potatoes, and Jerusalem artichokes. Cuttings or slips of sweet herbs may be planted.

April.

Planting the vegetables which have been sown is now the chief business. Make hot-beds for cucumbers and melons; force kidney beans and Elford rhubarb. Plant out artichokes and potatoes; sow asparagus, beets, cabbages, celery, garden and kidney beans, Dutch turnips, lettuces, peas, radishes, small salading. Cress and mustard may now be sown under a south wall or fence. Clear fruit trees and bushes from suckers, and keep the ground about frequently loosened by the hoe.

May.

Sow carrots, lettuce, capsicums, cauliflowers, spinach, Knight's marrow fat as, &c. Transplant cab-ages, winter greens, lettuces, and celery. Spinach may be sown in a shaded situation, but will soon run to seed. The round-leaved kind is proper to sow now. Spinach is not a profitable summer crop. Hoe and stake peas, water newly planted crops, and propagate aromatic plants by slips and cuttings. Protect from wind and Vain choice tulips, ranunculuses, and anemonies. Propagate herbaceous plants by dividing the roots; wall flowers, sweet Williams, and rockets, by slips; and China roses, hehotropiums, &c., by cuttings.

June.

Sow Cape brocoli, kidney beans, peas, lettuces, radishes, campions, spinach, small salading, &c. The best peas for sowing now are Knight's marrow peas; they will bear till October. Hoe the beds of table vegetables, and pick out the most curled plants of curled parsley, cress, and chervil for seed.

July.

Plant cabbages, savoys, lettuce, celery, &c. Train and regulate the summer shoots both of wall trees and standards; prune vine and fig trees, and shade ripe currants that, are exposed to the full blaze of the sun Take up garlic, onions, and shalots as their leaves begin to decay.

August.

Both cabbages, spinach, Welch onions, turnips, and radishes should now be sown. Parsley which is very thick and crowded may now be cut over close to the ground. Examine bulbs that they are not damp, or they will soon become mouldy. Gather herbs in flower for drying, and articles for pickling. Keep the soil about winter crops regularly loosened.

September.

Sow vegetable seed for a spring crop. Prick out cabbage plants, and gather the ripe seeds. Hoe and clear the ground about turnips. Cabbage for collards in November, and German greens may be planted early in the month.

October.

Sow mazagan beans, and frame peas on a warm southern border. Transplant cabbages, garlic, lettuces, and shalots, under frames.

November.

Force seakale, rhubarb, and asparagus. Transplant suckers taken from the roots of the pear and codlin plum, and prepare them for budding and grafting different fruits upon.

December.

Celery should now be earthed up, and in so careful a manner as not to require the operation again. Force asparagus, rhubarb, and seakale.?