FOR GARDENERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 442, 26 February 1909, Page 5

FOR GARDENERS.

WORK FOR TO-MORROW,

■ This is'a. s.eaison. of : floworing—of,weeds. A few flower .stalks of -docks-left, to','ripen and scattor their seeds may cause a-few hundred dock plants/to disturb the. gardener's temper later; on.; .■Although,'-in reality,; an.;active, gardener; is' "never alatmed: by docksT-they are'/so /easily.taken. v ou# But sorrel,v. which is: closely : : related;<to' : T docks, . and which/in-; England'the: children used to call sour docks;; is a-, 'weed-of far 'powers to.; perturb. IfeVrpots,': that t'rav.el .laterally with fearful speed,-'.become, furnished' with dozens-of : little ..white - shoots,..? each , of which, is .the beginning of another plant. 'When you pull; up the original plant the long slender roots snap off and remain in the. threaded '.out --ijr all directions, and soon a thicket, of new sorrel: plants! -takes- its /place.; It. Is a 'hard .weed/to eradicate.,. Recognising this, . let: us cpnsider ;what is the; best .'way; to.at.tack it.;;-When .its roots-are working/ber heath other plants which'wej. Value, .one hesi-,tat'es,to-burrow too much after .the''weed's I roots) lest the.other plant.'.should "be injured in'the;.pr6cess..,''The best way/is'to;attack.'it ,in the oif / season—between; crops.. .' .Then' one a strong/digging -fork,/lift/the soil;- in;...large / lumps, ,get . oiie's-. hands and knees .and be reconciled: .to '■~- the /.'most:-tedious-, and -fiddlingmrk /'- thatr a- garden'er • can doi .'The picking; out ibf the.roots, the search for, the little, white shoots,v whicli are'so brittle that /theyfall; off at the 'least; friction', 'and tli'e' ■breaking;.up, of lumps- to '.'ensure that" none espapes,:-,niay,'• in a,/ badly-infected garden';' extend -over several; gardening . days. Sorrel; extermination '.from an ;old ; strawberry\bed is;; a. .notoriously;"'thankless -..There/is, '■ho., other', "effective cure'. v tb;at trie ' writer knows of.Oßurying.thesorreJ so deeply, thai;, /it : ;cannot C get.; ijp : .'"to." daylight : ;agam; -c'oilr stantly. hooirig off."the leaves so as,to stifle it;by; preventing it froni . ing. crops'of Obats : on xthe' land -ft v smo thor it —all -these are but they do; riot entirely cure. If .one really determines that, ;sorfel: shall not live in; his. garden' he; had -bettet; get; down on hands and knees .and •pick..;it but." -Ayiiere 'one keeps one's'gardenin; /good./.'cultivation .constantly, there is, ■ however,"-, little. f 'to-be feared from..'sorrei| because/before . it.' can. do ,harm : the ;next hoeing day comesi-/round. . ; Xt--is- the man who. ■■likes;, to' sit and; look-.'.at his- garden | !without-jdoirig/hiubh'to-it' whom tbe"'sorrel worries.- :; 'V.,.;-'■'!': '--' .'•':' : '. '■■ ■ ■■■■■:-x-. ;;:•;.'One can ; : sow ' to-morrow, -. -if .. they are ;needed,/seeds' of carrot, cress,, endive, let-, 'Sonions,.'-..' parsley, , .- radish, ;savoy; spiliach,'.anditurnips.".■'"{-. -;,-;