The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-12
Garden Work fer April.
BY G. s. INNS, COLUMBUS, o.

On account of the extreme backward
ness of the season, there has been little
or no work done in the garden during
the month of March even by professional
gardeners. Consequently, we will have
to begin operations this year in April.
Let me say 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 90 into some corner of field handy
to the house, and after you have given
it liberal supply of that well rotted
manure you have near your stable or IN
your barnyard, plSw it well, not less
than eight inches to ten inches deep
twelve to fifteen would be better. Ii
your land is good corn land, capable of
producing seventy bushels per acre,
plow up some, where you put no manure,
for your peas and early snap beans.
These grow too much to leaf and have
less fruit when the ground is very rich.
Peas ofsorts should be planted as soon
as the ground can be worked at all COM
fortably; make the surface smooth and
fine and lay out the rows four feet apart,
and drill in the peas one to every inch;
make the rows ofsome length and leave
room to turn at each end with horse and
cultivator or double shovel plow.
Beans, Early Valentine is 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. Plant after a few warm
DAYS, and if the beans rot from cold or
vet weather, try them again.
Take the best and richest land you
have for onions. We lay off cur onion
land as much as we want, and strike a
furrow straight through the middle,
throw three or four burrows together
and rake smooth, drawing clods, &C.,
into the furrows, go round once or twice
more, then rake again, and so on till all
is done. You now have your land plow-
ed and raked smooth, and not a track of
man or beast upon it. Use marker to
lay out the rows. We lay ours out
fourteen inches apart; this gives room
to admit a corn hoe between the rows;
the onions would grow, however, just
as we'll with the rows ten inches apart,
but it would be more tedious tending.
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 the table
months before those from the seed.
Seed should be planted very early and
covered with some white covering to in
sure good crop. For varieties, use the
Large Red Wetherfield, Danvers' Yel-
low and the White or Silver Skinned;
the first named for the main crop. Farm
ers generally, however, had better plant
sets.
Parsnips, carrots, satisfy and beets
should be planted in rows fourteen
inches apart, and from three to six
inches asunder in the rows, according as
large or medium sized specimens are de-
sired. For either of these vegetable
roots the land should be rich, and for
the first three named no fresh manure,
unless 1T is placed tolerable deep in.
the ground, otherwise they will be
sprangly and worthless; plow the land
deep, even if it is trenched all the bet
ter.
For the Early Blood Turnip Beet, the
land should be rich, but need not be
plowed more than ten inches to insure
a tOlerable crop.
After the ground gets a little warm
plant sweet corn for early table use; the
early red ceb sweet is first rate. PlaHt
more sweet corn every two weeks for
succession, till July 10th.
Plant q few rows of potatoes near the
house for early use as soon as the ground
will permit. The Early Goodrich and
Buckeye are as good as any other.
Don't forget the small fruits; straw
berries, raspberries and blackberries
make a good succession, and are not
bad to take with plenty of sugar and
good cream, which the farmer generally
has at that season of the year.
With little care and some work, no
one can live better and cheaper than
the farmer, and with little careless
ness and inatUention, no one lives worse.
Ohio Farmer