Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-08-13
Farm and Household.
(From the Summit Beacon.)
The Fruit Garden in August.

STRAwBERRIEs.-Now is the time
to make fall paintings of straw
berries, which, if well done, will
yield a moderate crop next year
and be in full bearing the year
following. Many strawberry
growefs plant in May, and by SO
doing the plants get a good start
and will yield a fair crop of fruit
the next season: but the draw
back to May planting is that if
the weather comes off dry, as it
did this season, it is a deal of
work to water the plants to keep
them alive until they take root.
And besides this, you have to
cultivate them all the spring,
when the weeds are most inclin-
ed to be troublesome. In August
planting, you are supposed to
have the ground free of weeds
and weed-seeds, and if planted in
a rainy time, you have very little
need to water the plants after
they are once set. You need not
look for quite SO good a crop of
fruit next year, but you are in
better condition, taking in ac-
count the whole lifetime of your
field-say three or four years.
This is the way did it: Dur
ing the few rainy days which
came upon us in the fourth week
in August, watched the oppor-
tunity, and on the 24th took up
a lot of this years sets and put
them in new rows which l had
prepared in May and kept clean
and mellow; and these plants
kept right on just us II f-tl,vy-did
not know they had been moved
at all. On the oath we had only
surface moisture, so in setting the
plants, l poured half a pint of wa
ter upon each plant after I had
set it in place and before l had
filled up the little cavity in which
| was holding it, then l pulled in
the filling Of earth, without press
ing it down, and so left it. Old
beds of strawberry plants should
now be dressed over and the run
ners kept cut, if a full crop of
fruitis desired for next season.
Strawberry vines have an awful
habit of feeling about and max
ing new sets during the moist |
season of the fall.
RAsPBERRIEs.- The young canes
of the raspberry are now fully |
formed and may be transplanted |
just as well as at any time. Only |
canes of this seasons growth will
bear fruit next year, and if they
are transplanted new they will
fruit moderately next season /; but
if the work is left till next spring,
you get no fruit till the year fol-
lowing; this is quite a considera-
ton in the economy of transplant
ing raspberries. The varieties of
top-rooting plants have now
thrown over their canes so the
tips touch the ground, and will
shortly begin to feel about for
soft place to catch hold of. If you
desire to make sets for trans
planting, or for renewing your
beds, you can prepare soft place
for the tips to root in, and to keep
the canes from swaying about in
The winds you can carefully peg
the tip to any desired place. But
i you object is a full crop offruit
Tor next season, cut off the ends
Of the canes so that they will not
take root at all. By this opera
ion the rest of the cane will be
strengthened and will make
strong laterals, which should also
De pinched off within six inches
,f the main stem. In this way
vou will make stocky plants,
which will be easily supported
md able to carry a full crop of
ruit. -r
BLACKBERRIEs.-The rampant
'oung canes of the blackberry
'lants should be cut back so as
Q grow stocly and self support
ng, and the surplus growth of
oung sprouts kept pulled off.
he large kinds Of blac kberries
re now in full flush of fruiting
nd must be handled with care
as not to split of the heavy
de shoots. Any struggling
oung canes which are not want
d where they are growing may
ow be transplanted, the same {
raspberries, and will bear fruit
ext year, but if left till next