In the Garden The worst event in the calendar of
English weather is the frost often falls about the Festival of the Three Icemen in the second Iv May. Its worst effects are on fruit blossom, but it is to be remem that such bouts of cold may ruin all sorts of crops, including es potatoes and tomatoes, if they are at all premature, and in the P zeal for gardening very many private growers are in too great a h The tomatoes can wait till the Icemen's festival is over. If early you are in danger, they can usually be saved from injury by frost if the I are watered before the sun (in this case the ally of the frost) b them. I once saw a most telling illustration of this in the gardens Reading University. Only the one row that was left unwatered blackened. The rest showed no sign whatever of injury. Se gardeners complain that seeds have not germinated. The fault p lies in excessive watering, which on heavy soils may induce an
Previous page
