==Turnip== to be sown for succession.  It is well now to keep to the small white early sorts.

==Vegetable Marrow==.—­In cottage gardens luxuriant vines may every year be seen trailing over the sides of heaps of decayed turf or manure.  All forward vegetables are prized, and Marrows are no exception to the rule.  An early supply from the open ground is most readily insured by raising strong plants in pots and putting them on rich warm beds as early as the season and district will permit.  Late frosts must be guarded against by some kind of protection, and slugs must be deterred from eating up the plants.

==June==

To some extent the crops will now take care of themselves, and we may consider the chief anxieties and activities of the season over.  Our notes, therefore, will be more brief.  We do not counsel the cultivator to ‘rest and be thankful.’  It is better for him to work, but he must be thankful all the same, if he would be happy in his healthy and entertaining employment.  Watering and weeding are the principal labours of this month, and both must be pursued with diligence.  But ordinary watering, where every drop has to be dipped and carried, is often injurious rather than beneficial, for the simple reason that it is only half done.  In such cases it is advisable to withhold water as long as possible, and then to give it in abundance, watering only a small plot every day in order to saturate the ground, and taking a week or more to go over a piece which would be done in a day by mere surface dribblings.

==Asparagus== should be in full supply, and may be cut until the middle or end of the month.  When cutting should cease depends on the district.  In the South of England the 14th is about the proper time to make the last cut; north of the Trent, the 20th may be soon enough; and further north, cutting may be continued into July.  The point to be borne in mind is that the plant must be allowed time to grow freely without any further check, in order to store up energy for making robust shoots next year.  It is a good plan to insert stakes, such as are used for Peas, in Asparagus beds, to give support to the green growth against gales of wind; for when the stems are snapped by storms, as they often are, the roots lose their aid, and are weakened for their future work.

==Beans==, both Dwarf and Runner, may be sown about the middle of the month, to supply tender pods when those from the early sowings are past.  A late crop of Runners will pay well almost anywhere, for they bear until the frost cuts them down, which may not happen until far into November.

==Broccoli==.—–­ Take advantage of showers to continue planting out.

==Cabbage==.—­Towards the end of the month sow a good breadth of small Cabbages and Coleworts.  They will be immensely valuable to plant out as the summer crops are cleared away.

==Capsicums== may be planted out in a sunny sheltered spot.