Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-06-27
AGIsICCLTI RAJ.
June Garden Notes.
from the New England Homestead.

from the New England homestead
Beets sowcd now on rich land will make
better roots for the table than those plant
ed earlier. pull beets as soon as the
tops indicate that the growth is complete.
An overgrown beet is not as salable as n
medium sized one. like the Dewing's
Early beet for late the shape is good, SO
is the color. The Egyptian beet is very
dark flesh and its quick habit of growth
makes it valuable for late planting.
Onions need attention, wedding but no
thinning Parsnips thinned to six inches
will do better than if less distance is
allowed between the plants. 1t does not
pay to transplant parsnips or carrots the
root docs not get good size.
After early peas, plant cucumbers for
pickles, late tomatoes, early fall turnips,
late string beans or sweet corn. Keep
the land full. Spinach will soon be gone,
giving room for cabbage, etc. Winter
squash planted in rich land will often do
we'll without manure III the hill. This
makes the spinach patch good place for
| the winter squash.
To make profitable gardening items
like this should be turned to account.
Early tomatoes can be forwarded by
waterings with liquid manure, and fire.
quent hoeings in dry time. Corn killed
by the late frost was up in seven days,
as were beans, and there will probably be
no great break in the corn and bean sup
| ply. 1t pays to plant over corn or pota-
toes much frosted, for the crop will be
better than if the old crop is left to grow,
though not so early. Besides it kills
weeds to work the land, that is one con-
ISOLATION.
Prepare land for cabbage by blowing
and narrowing and working in manure
into the soil, making it fine aud mellow
Put poles to the pole beans if not already
DONE
Alders make good pole in pinch !;
they are good one year and often two
years. are easily cut and sharpened with
one and the same blow cut the top off
with another blow, and you have pole
eight feet long which is long enough
even for limas. With six inches in the
ground they are firm enough. not to blow
down, and not so high as to require lad
der to gather the beans. Sticking peas
in this locality, in field culture, is out of
fashion. We pick over the vines twice
and get what we can from them, then
pillow them under for manure for the fol-
| lowing crop or NOV, and carry them oil
for COW feed, they make good rich milk
cut green and fed at once
Keep hoeing ; some OF the new wheel
hoes well .aonaged, will do good work
in land not too long neglected, where the
soil is free from stone ara rubbish. y
garden roller fits the land nicely for the
use of such hoe. Mine is sectlOt OF
chestnut log trimmed to IS inches IN
diameter with an iron band shrunk on to
each end Tue handle is hung from irons
driven into the ends. 1t is three feet
long and weighs about $50 pounds.
! Plant sweet corn for succession. Cros-
by's Early Sugar corn planted July l,
will ripen enough to sell for green corn.
1t did not last year on account OF the
drouth and the early frost, but it will
nine years out of ten. Cucumbers for
pickles, planted at the same time-July l
will make pickles the last of August.
The demand will probably be good this
GEAR as the crop was failure last season.
W. II. Bull, Hampton county, Mass.