The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26
Have You a Garden?
Have you a garden?

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l ask this question of every man who
owns little patch of ground. Having
ground and not garden, you are not
living up to your privileges. am aware
that most men think work in the gar
den only fit for women and boys. This
I find to be the case among farmers. I
know of men who can hardly be in:
duced to pillow the garden until every
thingelse isdone in spring. They seem
to think it isn't worth while
Now, know, from an observation of
some years, that half the living of fam
lily of five or six persons can be raised
from small garden, and the labor call.
ed for IL not excessive, when judged
from woman's standpoint, for in one
Of these little gardens all the work is
done by q woman, who tells me that
she finds pleasure and health as we'll as
profit in the work.
Think of It'll How long win it take to
draw manure enough to enrich small
piece of ground? How long will it take
to pillow the ground after the manure is
drawn? Half a day will more than COW
er the time demanded for these two
things. One days work will be sufIi ci-
cent for making beds, and we will allow
another for sewing seeds. Two days
and half to begin with, and am maxi
ing larger allowance Of time in which
to perform the work in most gardens
than ought to, for most gardens are
small. You will be surprised to find
how much can be done in two and half
days work, when the work is done sys-
Dramatically. fyou have to spade the
three days will be used up, but I think
not. -,,.,....-t.s ~ ;rl..,
When your seeds are sown, you have
nothing more to do until the weeds be-
gin to grow. Then you must not forget
your garden If you make a success of it.
find that very many persons start out
in the spring very enthusiastically; their
enthusiasm wanes before the; weeds
come, and before they get round to what
ought to be done promptly, the poor
vegetables have become so choked
and overrun with weeds that
they never amount to much.
The rule of greatest Importance in gar
deDing is this: Do what work is to be
done when it needs doing. DO not wait,
and think, well, it's only the garden,
LII get around to 1t after more impor-
tant work il attended to. If YOU once
have good garden, you will not put the
garden in the background after that.
You will consider it of prime impor-
lance. The fact is, a good garden 10 sec.
ond to nothing else about the farm in
point Of value, so far as the living for the
family is concerned. IT proper atten-
ton is given the weeds when they begin
TO grow it will be an easy matter to keep
them under all through the season.
Once let them know you are master and
mean to remain so, and they will give
up; but they are stubborn and perseVer-
ing, and they will keep you fighting
them all summer if you begin the battle
in half hearted way. The, work of
wedding and keeping the garden beds
clean is not very hard or disagreeable if
you have the proper tools to work with.
You want q small hand cultivator, which
can be adjusted at any width between
the rows, alsharp Doe and q narrow -bla-
ded hoe, coming tosa point; q hoe shaped
Ikea Y, only rather narrower, or longer:
in proportionate width and lensth than,
the letter. About most farms there are
broken! hoes from which 70 tool Of this
kind can be fashioned. It can s. ground
down thin and sharp on the edges. It Il