Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-01-10
AGRICULTURAL.
WHAT CAN BE RAISED FROM
SMALL GARDEN.

We know gentleman IN this city
who has a small garden which. after bu-
siness hours, he takes special pleasure in
cultivatiug as vegetable garden.
The latter, by actual admeasurement,
contains 23l square yards-equal to
little over Is yards square, or about the
twentieth part Of an acre.
This is very small garden, and it
would seem impossible to obtain much
from it. But the fact is few people have
any idea how much u small plot of
ground can be made to produce in a
single season by good cultivation and
iudicious succession of crops.
We cannot undertake to enumerate
everything which our friend raised from
his little garden. Suffice it to say he
had enough to supply his Tn table du-
ring the season with the choicest vege
tables, and to present an extra well-grown
specimen occasionally to his friends;
and he has now in the cellar good sup
ply of celery, aud some cabbage, carrots,
beets, etc.
AS soon as the weather would permit
in the spring, he sowed, on the southern
border. seeds of caulifower, cabbage. let
tuee, radish, red pepper, mustard and
cress. later in the season he sewed on
this same border cucumbers, melons,
etc. to occupy the ground after the
other crops had been eaten or trans
planted.
Along the whole length of the bor-
der, is 35 yards long, he planted row
Of early Kent peas. From this he had
several meals by the goth of june, and
the peas were then removed to make way
fer cucumbers and melons, which by this
! time were beginning to run. He also
trained some tomato plants against the
tighe board fence.
Five rows of dwarf -peae, each ten
! cards long, we're also set out on another
plot, and between the rows caulifowers
and cabbages we're planted. The peas
produced we'll, and as soon as they were
removed, trenches were dug and celery
plants set out between the rows Of cab
bages, in the place previously occupied
| by the peas. Some of the cabbases were
cut early, and the stocks produced sec
: ond crop of small heads, two, three and
! four ON each stalk. Late cabbage plants
were set in the place occupied by the
early Paris caulifowers, and thus few
good heads were obtained from between
the rows Of celery.
Let us enumerate. There were ON
this little plot, which would ordinarily
have been devoted exclusively to the
peas, FIRST, s full crop Of peas, second, a
full crop of early cabages and caulihow-
ers; third, full crop of celery; fourth,
a good crop of second heads of cabbage,
and fifth, few large heads of late cab
bage between the rows Of celery. Five
crops in one season, and all ,ceN gro,on!
On another plot, 10 yards wide, he
had two rows of early Short horn carrots,
two rows of onions, one row Of parsneps,
twu rows Of beets, one row of vegetable
oysters. Then row Of early Paris caul-
flowers. and next trench of celery, and
the remainder Of the plot was occupied
with melons and cucumbers The latter
on the one side Of the celery trench and
the cauliflowers on the other, were of
in time to allow he celery to be earthed
up.
There was not poorly grown veget-
able in the garden. The carrots were
sown quite thick, and thinned out as
they go: large enough for the table. In
this way the family, consisting of six
persons, had=a full supply during the
summer, and there were over two bush
els 10 put in the cellar in the autumn
So of the beats and onions. They were
thinned out az wanted for the table and
there were enough beets left for winter
use and plenty small onions for picking
He had oven 100 bead of caulifow
ers, and cabbages ''too numeroasto men
ton Cucumbers enough to eat, te
pickle and to give away. He had d
hundred good ripe, delicious melons, and
a few mangoes lie had a hundred ano
twenty large, fine, we'll blanched sticks
of celery, and as many more. planteG
later, that may be ciassed as ''fair ts
good
We have not mentioned all that oul
friend had in his little garden, bu
enough to show how much can be OBJ
:; tanned from, a few square rods of earth
He used no barnyard manure at all, bu
gave the plants liberal dressing of su
gerpAosphate of lime and sulphate o
ammonia. He attributes his success
however, more to thorough cultivation
than to these artificial fertilizers. The
ground was well spaded in the spring
and constantly hoed during the summe
-hoeing being our friends recreation
; and his delight.-Genessee Farmer.