July, August, September
JULY
Maintain frequent, shallow cultivation. Set
out late cabbage,
cauliflower, broccoli, leeks and celery. Sow
beans, beets, corn, etc.,
for late fall crops. Irrigate where needed.
Fruit. Pinch back new canes of blackberry,
dewberry and
raspberry. Rub off second crop of buds on
grapes. Thin out if too many
bunches; also on plums, peaches and other fruit
too thick, or touching.
Pot-layered strawberries may be set out.
AUGUST
Keep the garden clean from late
weeds--especially purslane, the hot weather
weed pest, which should be always removed from
the
garden and disposed of or rotted down. Sow
spinach, rutabaga turnip, bush beans and peas
for last fall crop.
During first part of month, late celery may
still be put out. Sow
lettuce for early fall crop, in frames. First
lot of endive should be
tied up for blanching. Fruit. Strawberries may
be set, and pot-layered plants, if
wanted to bear a full crop the following season,
should be put in. Thin out and bag grapes.
SEPTEMBER
Frames. Set in lettuce started in
August. Sow radishes and
successive crop of lettuce. Cooler weather
begins to tell on late planted
crops. Give cabbage, cauliflower, etc., deeper
cultivation.
"Handle" celery wanted for early use. Harvest
and store onions. Get squash under cover before
frost. From the
15th to 25th sow spinach, onions, borecole for
wintering over. Sow down
thickly to rye all plots as fast as cleared of
summer crops; or plow
heavy land in ridges. Attend to draining.
Fruit. Trees may be set. Procure barrels for
storing fruit in
winter. At harvest time it is often impossible
to get them at any
price. January,
February, March
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