Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-06-02
;farnttrs' Column.
GARDENING FOR JUNE.

The Southern Cnhiuxtor, (capital authority
furnishes for June the following excellent ad-
vice to gardeners:
Little can be done the present month, in the
garden, with the exception Of mulchlng, weed
Ing and watering. We regard the first opera
ton (mulching) as Of a paramount Importance
: in this climate, and have spoken of it so often
that repitition seems unnecessary. Mulch every
thing-trees shrubs, vines and vegetables.
covering the surface of the earth, as tar as the
roots extend, with or inches of pine straw,
chip mould, spent tan, sawdust or forest leaves
and YOU will fine that trees and plants thus
treated grow much faster, and receive little or
no check from the long-continued drouthS OF
midsummer. Water should now be freely and
regularly applied to all your growing vegetables,
through the mulching, in the manner heretofore
drected-leaving no moisture exposed on the
surface to the baking rays OF the sun. Ihls Is
an excellent time to attack the weeds, and you
must show them no quarter. Cut them down
and let them die on the surface; or dig them
up, and burn them, root, branch and SEED.
Plant Snap Beaas and scatter little short lit
ter or saw dust on the ground after having COW
cred the seed. This will make them come up.
Irish Potatoes can be planted and heavily
mulched; they will give ; fair crop in October.
Plant Hrafe,n,elons for 4 succession. During
the latter part of this month, Cabbage and
Broccoli plants for fall and winter use may be
set ut.
Seeds of Cabbags, Cunlia"wer, CelrM DC,
may be sown under low arbor', made OF brush
or pine tops, in order to shelter them from the
fierce rays of the sun. Water often, until the
plants are we'll up, when little liquid manure
NAV be used alternately with the water, from
time to time. Plant full crop Of Okra, without
delay. Plant Peas, Sceef. Crn and Snap Beans,
for succession. Transplant Tnsatocs and ear
ly Celery &C., and prick out Celery, CaulJfower-
and Broccoli. Pinch off the leading shoots OF
of your early Tomatoes, Lima Beans, Melons
and Cucun,6ers, if you want the fruit to set
early; and give the plants liquid manure If you
desire large specimens. If the green worm is
troubling your fine Musk-melons, place the
fruit on brick, when hslf-grown. Sow Iona
toes for late crop, they will come in when the
first is gone. Sow Rutabaga Turnip seed and
transplant them like winter cabbages, in rows
2 feet apart and lS inches apart in the row.
The white and yellow summer Rad,sh must
now be sown. Transplant Onions and Leeks,
if not done last month, Whenever the season
suits. Also transplant Beets where they stand
too thick in the seed beds.
Strawberry Beds must be kept free from
weeds, we'll mulched with leaves or broom straw
and freely watered in dry weather. If you de-
sire fruit, cut off all the runners as fast is they
appear, and keep the ground cool and moist.
But if you wish to increase your plants, the
mulching may be dispensed with (except imme-
datey around the plants as directed heretofore
and the surface must be kept clean, and well
worked with pronghed hoe.
The ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDES.-Where
the frost has not cut off portion of your fruit,
thin it from one-third to one-haf, if the branches
are heavily laden, and the remainder will be
enough larger and finer to pay for the trouble.
Peaches, Plsms, Nsctarinss, Awico's, &c, may
now be budded, using for the stone fruits, by
way of experiment, free growing and vigorous
stocks of tho wild Chckesaw Plum; but the
tree must be trained low and branching instead
of tall, slender and "spindling." Mulch all
young trees set out last spring, and give them a
copious watering occasionally. Turn your small
"shoats" into the orchard to devour fallen fruit,
and encourage them to root, Dor loosen up the
earth by scattering handful of corn to them
occasionally underneath the trees. Large hogs
are frequently destructive to orchards, tearing
and mutiating the branches in their efforts to
obtain the fruit, even when the ground is thick
ly covered with it.