Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-03-11

GARDuIxa 1U1 1M YEAR i
Leader, are you ! housckecper? III
you are, il are not doing yourself or fam
iii justice Ii You do not cultivate yegeta-
bic garden. Begin this year with US, and
We will stand bJ You through Ill the chang
ing seasons. il the garden spot be too
sandy, haul on and spread evenly over the
surface few loads Of clay. Htoo clayey,
haul on sand turn these under with q
good coat Of stable manure, and the condi-
taon Of the soil viii be greatly ameliorated.
This Is the time to lay the foundation for
the food Of the vegetables throughout the
entire season Coarse manures may be
turned under now. Those who have not
the meahs or material to manure garden,
will be astonished to see what garden
they mag have ifthey but apply the means
and material usually wasted. The CON
tents of the rash-tub, ash-barrel, scrapings
Of the chicken yard, hog and cow-pens,
will make any garden rich enough to pro.
duce the vegetables for the farnily,s use.
It is thought by many that to have fine
vegetables requires q great outlay Of mo-
ney; nothing can be further from ths
truth. There is not family Of six per-
sons located upon the poorest pine lands
of the South, but what may have a produc.-
tive garden, without laying out a dollar for
manure, if they but husband all the re-
sources for fertilizers created by the family.
To begin with, there should be com
post pit, where all the refuse of the kitch.
en-, chambers, smoke house, wash house,
leach tub, and sweepings Of the house and
yard, should be deposited. This compos,
| will be q better manure than stable ma.
nure or guano. Guano is not generally .
safe garden manure; if tits applied now
and turned well under, it may be used witt
safety. We look upon it as folly to ma
nure vegetables in the drill A square il
the garden planted in cabbages, in -snal
beans, or in beets, as these plants begir
to mature, will be perfectly filed with tn,
fbroas roots Of the plants, as they spreat
out, seeking their food The confne thei
food just under the tap-root would depriv,
the hundrens of feeding mouths of nour
ishment. Whatever manures are applied
on the garden should be spread broadcast
and turned deeply under. The vegetable
garden is no place for fruit, shade or or
namental trees; plant fruit trees, in tn
orchard, shade trees on the lawn, and flow
er and ornamental trees in the yard. Sc
now that the fence is pig, chicken, an,
rabbit proof; put the gate in good order
|. and now begin the year in. gardening.
Let it be remembered that this journa
circulates in upper Georgia, Alabama, ant
all the States South. Our directions 70
horticultural management will be for tn
centre.
There are few seeds thatswill yet bea
planting in the open ground. Nextmontl
is the great seeding month for the South
crn garden. Early cabbage, turnips, let
tuce, satisfy, spinach, parsley, carrots, pars
nips, beets, and mustard, may besown tn
latter part of the month. All the onio
family may now be plaated. Plant Iris
4 potatoes under straw; manure the grouny
4 well, and plough it deeply; open furrow
two feet apart, and drop the half of pc
tatoe two feet apart in the furrow, cove
| it two or three inches with earth, and the
cover the whole bed two feet with leave
or straw. The rain will beat sdown tn
leaves and straw, and no matter how dr.
the season, the ground will never becom
entirely dry. We made in the dry sea
son last year, by planting potatoes in thi
way, the largest Irish potatoes we ever sa,
anywhere.
/ Those who are willing to go to triflin
expense. may start the early cabbage, lei
tuce and caulifower, in, hot bed. 1
frost proof hot bed may be made after th
following manner: Excavate a piece Q
ground as large as the frame is to be
twelve inches deep, in this put six inche
of good cotton seed, fill up with garde
soil, and put on the frame. The fran
may be made Of common rough plank, fac
ing and sloping South, with a commo
window sash to cover it. In this, plan
Z. the seeds; the heat of the cotton see
will force the plants into quick growth
| In mild weather take off the sash that til
4 plants may have air. Where cotton see
cannot be had, stable manure will answer
Have convenient some old mating, loos
straw or hay, to place over the sash, i
4 very cold weather.
i A crop Of very early English peas ma
| be obtained by planting in the followin
manner: Open trench as long as tn
row is to be, eight or ten inches deep; i
the bottom Of the trench dig in some we
rotted manure; the trench should beabou
twelve inches wide. In the bottom of thi
trench double row of English peas 9Th
early varieties.) It will take very Sc
we're frost to freeze down to the bottom
of the trench; but should the weathe
prove very cold, some planks over til
trench will protect the plants. BY til
time the peas are up to the top OF tn
trench, they will be safe from frost. Th
sides of the trench may be dug down, th
peas stuck with brush, and very earl
! green peas may be had for table. Sna
beans and okra may besstarted in this way
The okra will not require as deep trench
as it is of slower growth
i 1t may be well to caution our reader
that there are three requisites for goo
vegetable gardcn-good soil, good cultur
and good seed. Never purchase garde
seeds from any but raliable dealers. Chea
garden seeds are generelly the dearest
| Most seeds are planted too deep. Their
never was more foolish notion got int
the head of the planter, whether in tn
garden or field than that plants, to with
stand drought, should be planted deep
If the Soils properly prepared, the near
er the surface the seed can vegetate tn
better; the roots will go low enough 70
| moisture if there is no hard pan to resis