The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 669 pages of information about The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 669 pages of information about The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots.

==Cabbages== to be planted out as advised last month.

==Cardoon.==—­Blanching must be continued.

==Carrots.==—­Lift the roots and store in sand.

==Cauliflowers== to be prepared for the winter.

==Celeriac.==—­Part of the crop should be lifted and stored in sand; the plants left in the ground to be protected by earthing over.

==Celery== must be earthed up, and protecting material got ready to assure its safety during frost.

==Chicory.==—­Raise about a dozen plants at a time as required, cut or wrench off the foliage, and pack the roots, crown upwards, in boxes with moist leaf-mould or soil.  They must be stored in absolute darkness in some cellar or Mushroom-house which is safe from frost, but a forcing temperature is detrimental to the flavour.  Gathering may commence about three weeks after storing.  The yield is abundant, and is of especial value for salading through the autumn and winter months.

==Endive== to be blanched for use as it acquires full size, but not before, as the blanching makes an end of growth.

==Lettuce.==—­Continue to plant as before advised, and make a final sowing in frames not later than the middle of the month.

==Parsnips== may be dug all the winter as wanted.  Although a slight frost will not injure them when left in the ground, protection by rough litter is needful in very severe weather.  It often happens that they grow freely soon after the turn of the year, and then become worthless.

==Potatoes== to be taken up and stored with all possible speed.

==Rhubarb== for forcing should be taken up and laid aside in a dry, cool place, exposed to the weather.  This gives the roots a check, and constitutes a kind of winter, which in some degree prepares them for the forcing pit.

==Roots==, such as Beet, Salsify, and Turnip, to be taken up as soon as possible, and stored for the winter.

==Winter Greens== may still be transplanted, and it is often better to use up the remainder of the seed-beds than to let the plants stand.  In the event of a severe winter, these late-planted Greens may not be of much value; but in a mild growing winter they will make some progress, and may prove very useful in the spring.

==November==

The remarks already made on the necessity for tidiness and the quick disposal of all decaying refuse apply as forcibly to this month as to October.  The leaves are falling, the atmosphere is moist, and there should be the utmost care taken not to make things worse by scatterings of vegetable rubbish.  Now we are in the ‘dull days before Christmas’ the affairs of the garden may be reviewed in detail, and this is the best period for such a review.  Sorts that have done well or ill, wants that have been felt, mistakes that have been made, are fresh in one’s memory, and in ordering seeds, roots, plants, &c., for next season’s work, experience

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