The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-14
FARM AND GARDEN.


Very few kitchen gardens are made 10
yield more than half what they are capable
of doing under good culture and care, ana II
shall be the purpose of this paper to describe
some of the methods in use among the mar
ket gardeners, by which the garden is made
to yield two and even three crops III Il season
But little more labor or manure is needed ior
the two crops than One-in fact, the amount
of manure required to produce the crop in
perfection will generally carry through the
second with little additiC.i.
The early crops must be well manfred and
titled in order TO be cleared off in season for
the later ones, and this must be done with
prOmptncss in order to prevent interference.
Where peas are wanted in succession, as
they are in most private gardens Though not
in the market at profitable prices, the early
ones may be followed by squashcs, the later
by turnips or cabbage. Again, the amount
ofmanurc needed to produce good, early let
tuce, bects and spinach would be worse than
wasted on a late crop of turnips, which would
be very large but coarse and wormy More
over cabbage cannot be made to follow cab
bage Or turnips, or the reverse, without an
interval of at least two years, unless on some
kinds Of limestone land
When peas and potatoes are to be followed
by sQuasheS every fourth row of the early
crop should be left blank in planting; in this
blank row the squash seed should be sown
the tirsI week in June; they will not run be-
fore July 10, giving time to clear away the
early crop and pillow the land between the
squashes, The same plan is adopted when
celery follows potatoes the celery plants are
set in June in blank row between the pota-
toes, and banked up after the potatoes are
cleared away. When peas or potatoes are
followed by turnips, it is common to give the
Lon II Enl,t nj it.r har inn
ing and brushing, sowing the turnip seed
about the last of July.
When late Cabbages are to follow peas or
potatoes, the land should receive if possible,
a second manuring after the early crop is
cleared off, and made fine by blowing. The
cabbage plants must be set by July Goth to
head well
The land for spinach, lettuce, bcets, early
cabbage, and onions, should be made very
rich by abundant manuring, and these crops
are generally made to prccede celery, which
needs also very rich land to do well. The
spinach and lettuce will be all cleared before
setting the celery plants, but blank rows
should be left between the bcets and onions,
as they will not come off early enough to set
the celery, though in ample season for bank
ing !tup, The celery rows should be eight
feet apart, at least when the market celery is
planted; the dwarf kinds can be planted
closer. but are inferior. 1t is rather difficult
to make melons do well as second crop
without hot.beds in which to start the melons
in pots so as to set them out about June 9th
among the lettuce or spinach; or melon seed
may be soWn June 1st, in hills five feet apart,
among the lettuce and spinach like all vines,
they need light land highly MANFRED
Cucumber pickles are made to follow peas
or are sown on a freshly turned green sward
June Goth to July 10th. When among peas
we usually plant between the peas at the last
hOeing.
Sweet corn may be cleared early enough to
be followed by fiat turnips, and may be sown
late after crop of spinach or peas. Sown as
late as July 9th it does well.
Tomato plants are sometimes set between
the rows of peas, hut the practice is not re.
commended except when late tomatoes are
wanted. Caulitowers may be planted on rich
land, July lst to 10th, after early potatoes or
lettuce
IL is not uncommon to raise two crops of
turnip bects on the same land, the first crop
pulled by July 10th the second will mature
in October of sufficient size for good table
beets Horseradish may be grown also as Il
late crop after lettuce, spinach, or beets A
little skill and care will be needed to adopt
the above suggestions and make them sue
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