The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-03-19
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Look to Your Gardens.


portant branch Of husbandry may
not be amiss or improper. There is
nothing that conduces more to good
living than well prepared and well
cultivated vegetable garden. In the
hot summer months. vegetables are
neeessary to health and contribute
TO the comforts and luxuries of life.
In the successful management of
a-garden. the first requisite is to have
an abundance Of well-rotted stable
manure worked in and the land thor
oughly prepared. This should be
done as early in the spring as the
ground will permit, so as to have the
benefit Of any late. freezes. Es-
pecially should this be done where
the subsoIl is clay, in order that it
may be thoroughly puIverized. No
good Vegetables can be grown on
cloddy land, for the reason that all
eur most valuable vegetables are
rank feeders and require all thenu-
triment to bring them to perfection
that the soil can supply.
IF economy in labor is the object,
tie. rows should he laid OF. sufficient
~ wide to permit the use of the
pillow. But. il the garden is small
and q great variety Of vegetables is
desired the;rows may be narrower,
so as to permit the use OF the spade.
hoe. or fork only. Beets, carrots,
onions, satisfy, radishes, lettuce, egg
plant, snap beans, pepper, parsnips.
and celery for transpIanting, will do
as. weIf IN rows Sixteen inches apart
as in wider ones. They should he
planted ii ridges raised some two
inches above the general level so as
to secure drainage. Planted thus
they are much more easily worked
when young aid grow with greater
Yigor. May peas should be planted
in rows four feet apart, okra three.
and tomatoes six feet. Early York
cabbage do. well planted two feet
each way in quincunx form, that is
to say, suppose the first plant in the
row to be planted one foot from the
end of the row, the second plant two
feet from the first, and so on for the
first row. 81 In the second row, begin
ming at the same end, let the plant
be set out two feet from the end, the
second two fee5 from that, and so on. /
In the third row the plants should
range with those in the first, and in
the fourth row with those in the sec
ond. Planted in this way they have
greater room to expand without oc-
cupying any more land. They are
also more easily cultivated. and the |
cabbage plant presents q more agree |
able appearance to the eye.
The proper method Of cultivating /
tomatoes is bptIittIe understood, as
8 much greater number Of plants are
used than necessary. They should .
in no case be set ont closer than four |
feet in a row, and the rows should be 4
at least six feet apart, 50 that each .
plant may have at least twentv-four +
feet. Holes should be I
dug eighteen inches deep where the 7
plant is to stand. and filed with rich /
earth scraped from fence corners or
the poultry yard. Over these holes
a broad fiat hill should be made and I
the plants, set ont, keeping them
shafled and watered for several days.
After they begin to grow they should
be worked twice a week. and oftener
if there are frequent showers. When
they get a foot high and begin to
frames four feet square and
six feet high with numerous cross
Stats should be placed over each
plant. Treated in this way they
will bear enormously and continue
to bear until frost. We nave seen
vines grow to the length Of fifteen
feet and continue vigorous through
out the whole season. Such of our
readers as has never tried this /
method would do well to test it in /
this succqlent and pop
nlar vegetable.
Much Of the garden yield depends
upon the quality and soundness of
the seeds used. and when well and
-sown and planted, half the
labor may be said to be accomplish
ed. Seed should therefore always
be purchased Of reliable dealers. 1t
is the poorest species OF economy to
undergo the labor Of preparing and
manuring land and then lose g crop
Of vegetables by using bad seeds.
Another suggestion we would
make in this connection: Let all
he entire varieties Of vegetables be
planted continuously so that the
and may be used for fail vegetables
Alter they are gone. Early cabbage
onions, lettuce. early peas, /
beans, early beats are usually con-
;umed before midsummer, SO that
,he land may be prepared for tur-
lips, celery or even late cabbage
some gardeners plant without refer
snce TO this fact aud have difficulty |