Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04

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country sad.
| Garden Vegetables.
Extracts from paper resd by NJ. Faxon be-
| fore tue Massachusetts horticultural Society.
The essa yist aimed to speak of kitchen
| garden vegetables distinct from those
! grown for sale. A garden containing one
acre, or even less, will amply supply ten
| persons with all the lUxurIes of the sea
| son. The ground must be trenched as
deeply as the nature of the soil Will per
NIT and thoroughly enriched with good
barn-yard manure.
Upon the supposition that the garden
of one acre had been prepared and ade
ready for planting, the speaker would ad
wise, about the LIST of April to lay it off
in rows uniformly if possible. Next to
assign TO each intended crop the rows or
portion of rows suitable for it to occupy.
Assuming the piece TO be Oblong in shape,
100 feet wide and 436 feet long, this may
be divided into rows so as to give 100
rows, each 100 feet long, each row being
understood to include surface of l foot
| wide on which shCuld be placed seeds or
! plants. There would then be left an in
terval of feet between each planted
| strip and the next one, affording ample
| space for horse cultivation. The follow
| ing brief hints were given as to the cul-
ture of vegetables suitable to the kitchen
! garden:
Asparagus-The roots should be plant
ed at intervals of L inches in the row, the
! crown from to inches below the sur
| face. The spring Is the preferable time.
| Two-year- old roots should be used. 1t is
not desirable to cut asparagus for the
| table until two full years from the plant
ing. Afterwards it may be cut annually.
! Three rows will not be too much and will
| take 400 plants.
| As class, pole or running beans are
not very hardy, and can not be planted
until settled mild weather, say from May
| 20 until June /. Four plans in a hill,
with hills four feet apart each way, Is rec
commended The dwarf kinds are far
| superior for snap or string beans to the
| pole beans.
Bush or dwarf beans, though somewhat
harder than the preceding, should not be
! planted until settled weather. All beans
! do best in warm, light soil, but will flour
| ish in almost any soil or situation, unless
shaded or very wet. OF string beans, as
we need a bOuntiful supply, two rows
should be planted. Make the first plant
| ing, say May 20, and another planting
June 10.
The beet requires deep sandy loan,
and the plants when well up should be
thinned TO 8 or 10 inches apart for the
| early crop. Sowing for the winter crop
should be about July or a little earlier.
Less thinning will be proper for the
! early crop, as the warm weather favOrs the
| growth of the plants enough to admit of
their standing closer. Four to five inches
apart will be enough. Beet tops used as
greens are by many preferred TO the dan
! delion or spinach.
OF cabbage, one had better buy the few
plants he will require for the early crop
than attempt to raise them from seed,
unless he has hot-beds or chooses to raise
the plants for the pleasure OF growing
! them. They should be set in the ground
| about A ril 20, when cabbages can be
raised from seed sown in open ground
| between the 10th and 20th of June. Half
a row of the early kind will suffice.
Cauiifower can be grown successfully
! by some amateurs, though it is generally
| left to the experienced market gardeners.
! Strong, stocky plants are needed. The
culture is the same as that of the cabbage.
At least a row will be needed, and this
will take seventy five plants. Early
| SNOWFALL and dwarf Erfurt are good
| kinds.
| Celery Is market gardeners crop. The
plant, however, may be obtained by grow
| ing or purchasing them in the same way
as cabbage or caulifower plants. They
are to be set in the open ground between
! June 10 and July l. The crimson celerys
| have one advantage over the white kinds,
| that in the spring, when the latter have
! become soft and lost their aroma, the
| former are as good as when gathered in
the fall. One hundred plants will occupy
one of the rows, as plants should be
| about II inches apart.
To grow carrots to perfection there is
needed a good, light and well enriched
| sandy loan. The earliest kind is the
| French forcing, a little, round carrot of
delicious flavor. One half row will be
! sufficient for fiavoring the winter soups
! and stews.
Lettuce requires to be grown i'll a moist
| soil and in cool weather. For this reason
the best is obtained only in the spring or
early summer. For New England the
black seeded tents ball, when solid heads
are required, and the Boston fine curled,
! lettuce, are DOIn UcSlraDle varieties.
! One-haIf row of lettuce will be sufficient.
1t is better to plant sweet corn III rows
rather than in hills, and if the plants ale
| thinned to about s inches apart the yield
| of the rows will be larger than can be
! obtaixed from hills. By successive plant
| ings every two weeks from May 20 to
July l, continuous supply may be had.
At least eight rows should be devoted to
| sweet corn.
| The cantelouhe melon is one of tn
musk melon family. 1t has TO be planted
in hills and thinned to three or four
! plants il each hill. it must not be plant
ed until the ground is warm, for it is al
most as tender as the squash. When the
| plants have made four leaves, the ends of
the main shoots should be pinched off.
| This will strengthen the growth of the
vines and hasten the maturing of the
| fruit. Half a row will furnish a good
supply. Water melons are not grown
with much success here, as our seasons
are not long enough.
| Onions from seed should be planted in
rows as soon as the ground is workable in
| the spring, and when well up, thinned to
4 inches apart. They must have clean,
thorough and constant cultivation during
! the growing season. Sets are small
onions which produce early large ones
! for salads or for the table earlier than
sney can be grown from seed. They
| should be set out about the middle of
| April. The white enes are by far the
| best. Onions from seed should have
! three or four rows in our garden. Half
a row of sets will be enough, making the
row / foot wide and setting the buds
inches apart. Two quarts of sets will be
needed.
| Parsnip seeds should be planted very
early, and when well up, thinned to