The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-04-09
Home, Farm and Garden.
From the Ohio State Journal.
Garden Work for April.


wardness of the season there has been
little or no work done in the garden
during the Tonth of March even by
professional gardeners. Consequent
lly we will have to begin operations
this year iD April.
Let me ay to the farmer, too,
don't crowd your garden up in some
narrow or small place where you
cannot get at it with horse and
plow or cultivator but go into some
corner of q field handy to the house,
and alter you have given it liberal
supply of that well rotted manure
you have near your stable or in your
barn yard, plow it well, not less than
eight to ten inches deep-twelve to
fifteen would be better. III your
land is good corn land capable of
producing seventy bushels per acre,
pillow up some, where you put no ma
nure for your peas and early snap
beans. -.-...r.
These grow too much to leaf and
have less fruit when the ground is
very rich. Peas of sorts should be
planted as soon as the ground can
be worked at all comfortably make
the surface smooth and fine and lay
out the rows four feet apart, and
drill in theJpeas one to every inch;
make the rows of some length and
leave room to turn at each end with
horse and cultivator or double SHOW
ell plow. 4 5 ..g9
Beans, early Valentine best, may
be planted as close as you can go
through them with horse and plow,
say thirty inches between the rows,
and twelve TO fifteen inches in the
row from hill to hill. rss5
Plant after few warm days, and
If the beans rot from cold wet wealth
er, try them again, 100
Take the best and richest land
you have for your onions We lay
off our onion land IS much as we
want, and strike 8 furrow straight
through the middle, throw three or
four burrows. together and rake
drawing clods, &C., into the
open burrows, go round once or
twice more, then rake again and so
ON till all is done. You nov have
y our land plowed and raked smooth,
and not a track OF man or beast up
ON it. Use 8 marker to lay cut the
rows. We lay ours out, fourteen
inches apart this gives room to ad-
nit a corn hoe between the rows,
the onions would grow, however,
Just as weh With the rows ten inches
apart, but it would be more tedious
lending. Plant in the rows four
inches apart. or if you sow seed thin
and transplant to that distance. Sets
are better for the early crop as they
are fit for tae table months before
those from the seed Seed should
be planted very early and covered
with some light covering to insure
good crop. For vsrieties use the
Large Red Wetherfeld, Danvers
Yellow and the White or Silver
the first named for the
main crop. Farmers generally, how
ever, had better plafs sets.
Parsnips, carrots, satisfy and
beets should be planted in rows four
teen inches apart, and from three to
six inches asunder in the rows, ac-
cor,iing as large or medium sized
specimens are desired. For either
of these vegetables roots the land
should be rich, and for the first three
,amed no fresh manure. unless it is
placed deep in the ground, other
wise they will be sprangly and
worthless; plow the land deep, even
I it is trenched all the better.
For the Early Blood Turnip Beet
he land should be rich, but need
lot be plowed more than ten inches,
o insure tolerable crop.
After the ground gets little warm
liant sweet corn for early table use:
he early red cob sweet is first rate.
Plant more sweet corn every two
veeks, for succession, till July
9th.
Plant lew rows of potatoes near
he house for early use as soon as
be ground will permit. The Early
Goodrich and Buckeye are as good
s any others.
Don't forget the small fruits;
trawberries, raspberries and black
erries make good succession and
re not bad TO take with plenty of
ugar and good cream, which the
arn,er generally has at this season
( the year.
With little care and some work,
o one can live better and cheaper
nan the farmer, and with a little
arelessness and inattention no one
yes worse. G. s. INNS.