Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-21
SOILS BEST SUITED FOR THE VA
RIOIJS GARDEN VEGETABLES.

SOILS BEST SUITED FUN L. liz VA
RIOUS GARDEN VEGETABLES.
\ good many readers who are desirous OF
forming vegetable garden, are yet at loss
how to prepare their soil to suit the various
kinds Of vegetables they may wish to cult
vate As some slight guide, yet reliable, SO
far as it goes, We offer the following:
.i<porng"s.-Ground should be light, yet
rich; sandy loan well mixed with rotten
dung or seaweed, is recommended. A good
quantity of dung, trenched twelve or fifteen
inches below the surface, is right.
Bcans-Thc bean is propagated to the
best advantage in stiff, moist loam, with a
considerable proportion of clay, although
it will grow well on any properly prepared
garden soil Mr. Louden gives the follow
ing directions for its culture:
For early crops, one pint Of seed will be
requisite for every eighty feet of row; for
main crops two quarts for every 2lo feet
of row; aud for late crops nearly the same as
the early. Plant in rows two and half
feet apart for the smaller, and three feet
for larger; the small, if beans two inches
deep, and three inches distant in row; the
larger three inches deepand four inches dis
tant in the row.
Bcd-For a bed four and a half by
twelve feet, one ounce Of seed is requisite
The soil in which it naturally delights is a
deep, rich sandy, dry and light, rather than
moist. Transplanting will not answer where
the object is a large clean root.
CaJJoge.-Every variety of cabbage grows
best in strong, rich, substantial soil, incli,
ming rather to clay than sand; but it will
grow in any soil if it be we'll worked, and
abundantly manured with well rotted dung.
C.urot-The carrot requires light, mel
low soil, mixed with sand, and should be
dug or trenched one or two spades deep,
breaking well the lumpy parts, so as to form
a porous bed and even surface.
Crfery-Celery delights in soil rather
moist, rich in vegetable mould, but not rank
from new rotted dung.
CucumJcr.-In our climate cucumbers
will grow in any soil, though not with the
same degree of vigor, provided they be sup
piled with a sufficiency of heat, light, water,
and air. 1t is an object with many market
gardeners and others, to produce cucumbers
at an early period, and for this purpose ar
tifcial heat is necessary. For early forcing
one-third of rich top spit earth from an
upland pasture, one-half Of vegetable mould,
and one sixth of well dccomposed horse
dung with small quantity of sand.
Lennm.-All the sorts grow freely on
any rich, mellow soil, where the sub.soil is
dry For the most part raise this vegetable
as principal crop, on beds set apart for it
and keep the varieties separate; but to mul'
tiply the supplies, throughout the summer,
portions may be sown thinly intermixcd with
onions, carrots, and Spinage, which will come
off before the lettuces are fully grown;
.Nions.-The melon succeeds in any
strong, uncxhausted loan, rich in vegetable
matter, with mixture of sand, but not too
light.
Oaion-The onion, to attain good size,
requires rich, mellow ground, on dry-soil If
the soil be poor and exhausted, recruit it
with a compost of fresh loan and well con-
sumcd dung, avoiding to use stable dung in
rank, unrcduccd state. Turn in the ma
nure to a moderate depth and in digging
the ground let it be broken fine.
Prsaip.-The soil should be light, deep,
and free from stones. 1t should be dug or
trenched before sowing, one good spade deep
at least, being careful to pulvcrize the soil
thoroughly, that the roots may have no OBJ
struction to prevent !heir running down long
and straight. If the soil be proper for them,
it is said that they will not require much
manure and what is used should be per-
fectly decomposed, or, if recent, be deposit
ed at the trench. They do not impoverish
the soil like onions.
Pcas.-The soil should be moderately rich,
and the deeper and stronger for the lofty
growers. Peas are not assisted, but hurt by
reduced dung recently turned in. \ fresh
sandy loan, or road-stuf, and little decom-
posed vegetable matter is the best manure.
The soil for the early crops should be very
dry, and rendered so, where the ground is
moist, by mixing sand with the earth of the
drills
| RaliM.-The soil should be light and
mellow, and well broken by digging. \
scattering of the smaller growing sorts may
be sown among other crops, such as spinagc,
lettuce, and onions 1t may also be drilled
between wide rows of beans, or on ground
intended to be sown with late spring crop.
Toman0.-To have an early crop, SOW
the seeds in dry and warm soil, and shell
tered situation, in October, and cover du-
ring the winter. For summer and fall use,
SOW again in May, and water freely. The
distance between the plants should rot be
more than two feet.
Turnip.-Saud or gravel, with mixture
of loan, produce the sweetest and best fla
vored roots. 1t should be made fine and not
too rich, lest the turnips be rank and ill
! tasted
We have given these brief directions,
partly to call attention to the fact that the
season is approaching when ground should
be prepared, gardens set in order, seed pro-
cured and everything made ready for a Wig
orous gardening campaign-a campaign not