A lot more planting this month that I was expecting...
Sow lettuce of various kinds; when up, shelter them under a sloping reed hedge, or hand-glasses. Make mushroom beds; thin your turnips; weed all young plants; transplant herbs, and earth up celery; sow young salading upon warm borders; clean asparagus beds in this manner: cut down the stalks, and pare the earth off the surface of the alleys, and throw it upon the beds half an inch thick, and sprinkle over it some dung from an old melon bed. Ridge the ground for winter; plant some peas and beans on warm, well-sheltered borders, to stand out the winter.
-Elizabeth Hammond in Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book (London, 1819)
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