10 SEPTEMBER 1954, Page 17

Harvesting Month

September is the harvesting month in the vegetable garden and in many gardens the excess crop is often wasted. Marrows can be kept suspended in nets, runner beans salted and put away, onions laid out or hung in bundles and tomatoes picked green and ripened in a cupboard or drawer. It is a sad sight to see the runner beans ripening and sowing themselves when they can be pre- served in a more succulent form. Tomatoes should never be allowed to remain out until the first touch of frost.

IAN NIALL