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THE SPRIHG AND SUMMER GARDEN
Preparing Fartilizusf an4Piatlnr Facta About Fertilizers and
Varieties of Vegetables TKat Every Gardener Should Kow
By W. F. Maswy , '. .
I HAVE found that the best time to the soil in the frames get rather dry,
apply stable manure tathe garden to further toughen them. ;.
is in the fall I cover my garden Then. when I plant them out I take
very heavilyjwith manure inTthe fall, the - plants -up - with a . gar den . trowel
since I can get only fresh manure, and a mas of soil and drop them mto
and fresh manure applied in the holes filled with water and pull the
spring is not worth nearly as much soil to them, and they, never wilt at
as that which has lain on the ground all. In this way I .usually get the
and rotted and leached into the soil first ripe tomatoes by the :10th or 12th
all winter. - of June, and keep up. a succession till
I supplement this manure with acid frost by later plantings. -
phosphate in the spring at the rate Thus I sow seed, of the later va-
of 1000 pounds an acre. This is im- rieties first on a warm border , the
portant, for rtie stable manure alone first of April, and again sow: seed
would soon get the soil "with an ex- after the middle of May. The early
cess of nitrogen in proportion to the plants will make their best fruits and
mineral elements, and you will get will be getting poorer by the .first of
rank tons on the potatoes andLsmall July, and the plants fronvseed sowed
potatoes, and with many other things the first of April will then be making
get more-tops than roots.
Fertilize Liberally '
IN THE absence of stable manure I
would use a mixture of equal parts
of acid phosphate and cottonseed
meal, as this will give a fair percent
their" best fruits. Then the - seed
sowed in late May will make plants
that will give their heaviest crop in
Septembe"r and will have a . load - of
well-grown: fruit, but . greea, when
frost comes. These I gather rand
wrap in paper and pack in crates and
age of nitrogen, a large percentage put in a cool cellar, and bring out a
of phosphoric acid ana a small per- f at a time to color uo in the
centage of potash. On the garden I
would use this at the rate of 1000
pounds an acre.. Good vegetable
crops are the result of. heavy feed
ing. But if you can scrape up enough
well-rotted manure, use the manure
and acid phosphate, Uut do not ex
pect the best results ; from rough,
fresh manure on the garden. It will
make the root crops like beets forked,
and in many ways will be a disadvan
tage, for it cannot feed the plants
'properly until it has been broken
kitchen window, and . in this way
have tomatoes for slicing till Jan
uary. . -:
- The earliest tomato is the Ear-
liana." It throws its entire crop 'early
and plays out. I plant but a few,
for L have found that the Bonny
Best is but little later and a far bet
ter tomato. For -the later crops I
sow seed ofv Success, Greater Balti
: more, Globe and Mississippi Girl. -The
early tomatoes have stakes 6
THE -PROGRESSIVE FARMER
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down arid rotted and has passed feet high to each plant. The plants
through what we call the" nitrifying fe set in rows 3 feet apart and 2
The first crop to go into the ground me siaKes wun a smgie stem ana me
is the early English? pea. If these sucKers reguiany pincnea out. 1 ne
have not been planted in ; January, ater vancues i piani .. oy h ieet ana
they should go in as early as possi- letT them tumble on the ground.
ble in February. " For this planting In February also-sow seed of the
I use a good strain of the Alaska eariy Deets. ine rxnpse ana .gyp
type of peas. Then a little later I turn are early, and if you do not ob-
sow the better quality of dwarf peas, J eet to . a iignt coiorea oeet the oia
the Sutton's Excelsior and -Thomas Bassano is as good as any. I sow
Laxton, an(T the last of the month I some beets in a frame under glass in
sow the old Champion of England.. January, ana tuny expose them in
These will need suooort. and ! eive March ana transplant then the. thin
them a five-foot width of the chicken
wire netting to climb on. There are
many other good varieties in the cat
alogs, but these'will give, youf all
that is good in. any of them. i
The early Irish potato crop comes
next. For the garden it is a good
plan to put the seed potatoes in shal
low-trays and expose them to the
nings, and in this way get ahead of
my neighbors, who are just getting
theirs up when I begin to pull.
Mehods With Beana
T ALWAYS take some chances -with
r." snap beans by sowing when it is not
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I have sowed these the last of March
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start the eyes before: cutting and to run ?0e "8hV ndgeS e.ast and-
planting. This will forward them v"t nP" le Deans on tne south
considerably, and we all want to get S1?.e' and when they are up the ridge
ahead of our neighbors. "V v1 'nem ,irom - ne COia
i ' winus, ana u irost tnreatens, take a
Getting Early Tomatoes ' garden plow and throw the ridge on
CEED of the early tomatoes should top of themHill the cold passes; The
be sowed about ten weeks before it best snap beans for the earliest
is safeto set the plants out in any planting is the Black Valentine.- It
section. I sow here in the south- will stand more cold' than any other,
eastern-corner of Maryland the first Tnen plant all summer succession
of February. I sow the seed in a cro.Ps of Burpee's Green Pod String
shallow box filled with light and fer- less and the. Celestial wax bean. This1
tile soil in my greenho.use. -Those f1 is the heaviest cropper I have
who have no greenhouse will have tried, as it makes crop after crop be
to use a hotbed , made under glass ?re Quitting. I plant a row at a
sashes or sow'the seed in a-box in tme and plant another row as soon
a - sunny window. As soon as the as" the other planting is well up. '
plants are large enough to handle I Sweet peppers I sow in the house
transplant them -to other boxes arid e tomatoes, and treat in the same
grve them 'more room. Then by the way Jhe Pimiento, or Glory pepper,
middle of March I set them in cold as some call it, is the best of all sweet
frames tinder v glass - sashes setting peppers. Mine, started early last
the, plants four inches -apart each" spring and planted out in late "April,
way,' to get strong and stout. Cotton bore constantly till frost. -
cloth will ; answer if you roll it off Eggplant -seed I do not sow till
every warm sunny day. And even . March and then sow as I do toma
with the glass-I give them,as mucH toes, and transplant them into small
exposure to the air - as practicable,' flower pots and ; grow them on till
trying to. get them hardy and. tough, flower pots and grow them into small
I want to , get . the plants so tough- are. very , tender, and it ia- useless to
ened lhat the stemsjWill ie:a.Mark ; try to harden tKem," for thai will only
purplish color instead of bright ten- 'stunt them. They want the richest
der green. -Then a week or . more of soil and 3 feet: of room .between
before planting time in April I; let the plants both Ways - -
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