Harvesting, but also planting for next spring. I really love the details of how microclimates are used to ensure fresh vegetables through the winter, and which vegetables those are.
Carefully weed all late crops. Dig up a border under a warm wall, and sow carrots for spring--also some radishes, in such another place. Turn the mould that was trenched up. Prepare hot-beds for salading; cover them five inches with mould, and sow upon them lettuces and small salading. Plant another crop of beans and peas. Trench the earth between your artichokes, and throw some earth over the roots. Make a hot-bed for forced asparagus. Take up carrots and parsnips, and lay them in sand for use. Give air occasionally to plants in hot-beds, and under hand glasses.
-Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book (London, 1819)
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