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tSomo Vcgotablen You Should Grow
- Practical and Specific Directions for Growing Some Vegetables
Too Often Neglected In the Farm Garden.
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S ONE OF our friends says that we must consider that many
of our readers are In the ABC class in garden matters, I will
offer this series of jshort articles for the benefit of such. While
most will le for Southern growers, I hope that some further-north
may be helped. . .
EARLY AND LATE BEETS. r
' Beets are among the earliest vege
tables to be sown, either in the home
or market garden. In-the far South
sow them in late January and in the
upper South after the middle of Feb
ruary. If not caught by a free2e Just
as they come up they will stand a
good deal ot frost after the leaves ex
pand. I never use animal : manure
with beets as it is apt to make them
grow forked. ; I use a high-grade
commercial fertilizer especially high
in nitrogen and potash. This is used
in the furrows, 500 pounds per acre,
and bedded on. -The beds are rolled
flat or nearly so, and the seed plant
ed. I have never yet found a garden
drill that will sow beet seed correct
ly and it pays to plant by hand. I
use a wooden wheel somewhat larger
than a . wheelbarrow wheel, with
rounded pegs set three inches apart
on the rim. This is rolled along the
rows, and the seed dropper drops a
seed in each hole made by the pins
and tramps on' it Each beet seed
will make several plants, and the
thinning is greatly facilitated by this
apparently slow method of planting.
The earliest market beet is the
Egyptian, it is of a fine dark red
color and good when .half grown but
almost worthless later. " Eclipse is
nearly as early and far better In
quality. For home use I like the
Early Bassano, but its tops are too big
for the market man to bunch well,
and Its color is too light for those
who think a beet must be red to be
good, but in quality there is no su
perior is my opinion.
The -Bwiss-chardIsa-species of
beet that is grown ,f or the midribs of
the leaves, which are cooked like
asparagus, and can be pulled all sum
mer. If you have never grown any
chard, try it this summer and you
will have a vegetable better by far
than any beet root
In July sow seed of the larger
forms of Blood Turnip beets, and in
the fall throw furrows from each
side over the. roots and they will
keep well all winter.
HOW TO GROW SNAP AND LIMA BEANS.
String beans, or as they are com
monly called in the South, "snaps,"
are grown In every garden. But in
most of the home gardens in the
South I have noticed that there is
little attention given to the keeping
up of a constant succession for the
table or market A few beans are
sown in the spring, and no ' more.
Now I have always had these beans
ready for use every day in the year.
I plant a few rows, and as soon as
they are up plant more, and so on
till in the climate of North Carolina
the last sowing is made the first of
September. In some seasons a later
sowing may do well. From the last
sowing, which I make the largest, I
get my Supply of winter snaps. The
green pods are gathered and put into
strong brine in ' stone . Jars, and
weighted to keep them under the
brine. These can be taken out in
. winter and soaked in fresh water
over night and are nearly as good as
the fresh pods. ' .
These beans do notjaeed high fer
tilization with nitrogenous manures,
but are better with merely a little
nitrate of soda to give an early start
and: mainly supplied with acid phos
phate and potash. As fast as the
pods are taken from a planting, the
vines are turned under and the land
prepared' for a later crop of some
sort, either late potatoes or cabbages.
On the heavily fertilized truck farms
where only one, crop Is grown
from1 the beans the vines are
plowed under and the land leveled
and left, for the volunteer crop of
crab grass for hay, and two tons per
acre of hay better than timothy is
of ten made without .the sowing of a
seed. To ; get, the earliest ; beans,
plant In . North- Carolina early in
April, earlier farther south. There
will, of course, be some risk of frost,
but if they escape this they will ,be
early, and if killed it Is only a few
seed lost.
The dwarf Lima beans, and in fact
the climbing sort as well, will need
heavier; nitrogenous manuring than
the snap beans. In fact, I am in
clined to think that the Lima beans.
though legumes, do not harbor the
nitrogen-fixing bacteria on their
roots. At least I have never found
them on mine, and would like to
know if others have found them. The
bush limas are earlier than the climb
ing sorts, and If the pods are gather
ed fast as filled, they will continue
blooming and bearing all summer.
ASPARAGUS NOT HARD TO GROW
But for the main crop set stakes and
put wide chicken wire for the beans
to run on and plant them in continu.-.
ous rows, merely BUckingHLhe bean:
eye down in the soil, so that they
will not be obliged to turn 'oyer' and.
have difficulty In getting up. '
I once had an old asparagus bed,
made in the old way, by digging out
the entire bed in a hard clay soil two
feet deep and putting rocks in the
bottom with, the idea of preventing
the roots running down into the sub
soil, which they never try to do.. The
result was a sort of basin to gather
the water from the surrounding clay
soil, and the asparagus 'was late and
poor. There had been labor and ex
pense enough spent on that bed to
have planted an acre properly, and
the soil selected was the heaviest In
the garden. , '.- ; ,
.1 have not bought an asparagus
root for more than thirty years, as I
found that with a rich and heavily
manured soil I could get asparagus
sooner from the seed, and with far
less expense. The soil should be light
and warm to get an early crop. It
should be deeply prepared, well ma
nured the year previous, and in pre- .
paring to sow the seed, furrows are
run 4 feet - apart These furrows
should be cleaned out" a foot deep,',
and should be half filled with well
rotted manure. An inch or two of
soil is pulled over this and the seed
sown in a continuous row as early in
spring . as the condition of the soil
will allow its -preparation. " "
-As the plants grow, thin i them out
to two feet apart, and you can trans
plant the thinnings to similarly pre
pared rows if needed, but I prefer to
have the plants remain where they
germinate, and seed is cheap enough ;
to plant the whole at once. Two tows
of onions can be sown between the ;
rows, and the whole cultivated with
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