The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-07-12
Orchard and Garden

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Do not let a crust form over the
garden. Keep the cultivator going.
The Icicle is good white radish for
late spring and early summer use.
Save the seed of choice flowers.
Seed of many varieties were hard to
obtain this year and may be harder
next.
A last planting of beans and sweet
corn may be made now with a chance
of their maturing enough to be used.
Now is good time to begin to plan
an exhibit for the county fair. Only
the finest material should be exhibit
ed and it should be well staged.
Spiraea Van Houttei makes good
unclipped hedge. Its only objection is
that it is so common. Cut out much
of the old wood as soon as through
Towering.
The old strawberry bed may be
plowed up and rutabagas sown on it.
If it is near water and not too much
sod in it, celery may be set out. Cab
bage are also sometimes put on land
of this sort.
Thunberg's barberry is said to be
rust proof and so may be used even in
grain sections. 1t is very fine fol-
iage plant for borders and lawns. 1t
sometimes dies back to the snow line
but RECEIVERS easily.-LeRoy Cady, as
sociate horticulturist, University
Farm.
Sow some endive and Chinese cab
bage for late fall use.
Plant lice thrive at this time OF
year. Tobacco preparations or soap
suds usually will destroy them.
This is the season when the canning
machine should be ip use frequently
for both fruits and vegetables.
When the larkspurs are through
blooming cut them back to the ground
and cultivate. They will send up
stems for fall flowers.
i, Have you tried growing your own
sage? 1t is fresher and better than
the store kind. The plants are quite
easily carried through the winter.
Currants and gooseberries may be
mulched with clean hay or lawn clip
pings when the fruit is so far adj
vanced as to make cultivating injuri-
GUS.
Keep the seed pods off pansies and
sweet peas if you want them to con-
tinue to blossom. When sweet peas
begin to blossom give them plenty of
water at the roots.
Hen manure. nitrate of soda or 9th
er heterogeneous fertilizer may be put
on onions and leaf crops if they do not
seem to be growing we'll. About 300
pounds per acre is used.
During a season of plenty is good
time to advertise. Use the local paper
if some of your produce is going slow
ly. See that the advertisement is at
tractively written and to the point.
Swiss chard is prepared for table
use in the same manner as beet tops.
1t is also liked very much by chickens.
Cut off part of the leaves at a time
and others quickly grow in their
places.
Now is 60 dime to sow some Ct
the perennials desired for next year
hollyhock, larkspur, columbine, etc.
Leroy Cady, associate horticulturist,
University Farm.
Timely Hints for Vegetable Gamers.
In selecting vegetables for canning
use great care to get those as nearly
perfect as possible.
Be sure that the vegetables used are
fresh.
Grade carefully and avoid waste.
. Do not scald or blanch longer than
necessary. Over-scalding tends to
make delicate vegetables, like aspar-
agus, soft.
Fit all the covers to the jars before
filling with vegetables.
Be certain that the rubbers to be
used are new and elastic, and will
stand long boiling.
Do not let vegetables remain in cold
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