The morning news., 1889-04-22

IS not usually profitable or intended to be
| so.
| The garden should be so arranged as to
| permit of its being plowed, having plstS
| long and narrower rather than shorter and
square. Deep preparation can readily be
| secured by running twice Tor thrice If
necessary in the same furrow. With thor
ough preparation of the soil with the plow
for The planting of the different vegetables,
the cultivation of them can be done exclu-
slvely with good hoes, heavy steel rskes and
garden plow-the latter a very useful little
| implement in the small garden where the
soil is light and loamy and free from stones.
! w here the cultivation Is thus with hand
| implements the distance between the rows
OF a number OF vegetables need not be
more than l3 to Is inches. Onions radish,
| lettuce, spinach. dwarf peas Qike Tom
| Thumb or Annie Wonder) carrots, satisfy,
| pepper, salad, turnips, mustard, need to be
i In rows only Is inches apart Early cab
bage, Irish potatoes with small tops like ear
| ly rosa or Ohio beets, bush beans, turnips,
Kohl rabbi, have plenty of room IN 24-inch
rows, To make the most on a given
| area give no more space than is necessary.
| Tomatoes, okra, squash tbush), egg plant,
| pole beans, should have distance of 3 feet
at least. In the previous lines the names of
about twenty different vegetables are men
toned, and celery, cucumber, corn, pars-
|
| tatoes, asparagus, artichOke burr, being
named brings the list up to about thirty
| that are cultivated more or less in our gar
dens
Tastes differ so no two persons are likely
to make the same SELECTION in making list
OF or of them for home use. 1t is we'll
| enough to have as great a variety OF vege-
| tables as 1t may be convenient to have but
| ordinarily a selection embracing one-third
of those mentioned will afford sufficient
variety and be ample for all practical pur
| poses. Say we choose beets, beans snap,
| butter beans, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes,
| okra, onions, squashes or turnips, English
peas, lettuce. Beginning operations IN Oc-
tober, as we should, first comes the setting
of onions, observing the long-timed prac-
| tice of using 'sets" of medium size for this
fall crop. As early in the month as posi-
bic seeds of cabbage should be sown in
nicely prepared soil with view to making
plants large enough to transplant during
| the month of November and as lato as the
middle of December. About two years in
five the weather in January is severs
enough to kill the plants if they are not
| protected in some way. On small scale it
is easy enough to protect them by mulch
ing the soil around them with cotton seed
and depositing a small armful Of pine straw
on the plants. Using good strain of the
early flat head fine largo cabbage can be
developed in April or May. Spinach is one
OF our finest salad plants, and it is not
| planted in our home gardens as extensively
as it should be- 1t is very hardy and when
sown in October furnishes the incest of
salad very shortly after severe weather is
| over. On rich land land it requires rich
land more than some other plants in a
| mild winter it can be made to yield salad
abundantly in December. Lettuce seed
should be sown in October, plants set out
| thickly in November and December Fine
| heads should be obtained by Mar h-April.
! he Coe variety Is very desirable kind for
| this planting, and there is no better than
| the Boston market for early spring plant
| ing. Turnips can also be sown in October.
! The roots may not be very large, but small
| roots and plenty of salad can be made.
! Sown the first week in October with season.
able moisture in the soil if the land is rich
| very large turnips can usually be made be-
| fore severe weather interferes. These crops
| sown in October November vacate the land
| by the first of May and a crop of toma-
| toes, beans, squashes cucumbers, or late
| cabbage may be planted on the land. In
| December the planting of English peas oc-
| ours. 1t is better to plant the dwarf varie-
| ties as early in the month as possible. AS
| stated these dwarf kinds require not over Is
| inches distance between the rows and high-
| ly cultivated on suitable soil may be- made
1 y
and are better for the small garden in every
| way.
Again in January or February another
sowing of lettuce and cabbage should be
made, and during the first half Of February
the planting OF Irish potatoes should be
| made. During December or early January
while little else could be done IN the gar
den, the plat for the potatoes snould be got
| ten in fine cultivation for panting-the
soil thoroughly fined and well manured
| There is nothing more important in the
| garden than thorough preparation of the
| soil before planting the seed. The way is
then very easy to obtain good results. In
| the matter of Irish potatoes instead of max
J ing two different paintings for a succession
| plant an early and late kind at the same
time in early February. Beets should be
| planted during February using also an early
and late variety at the same planting.
Okra is planted during the month of April
| throughout Middle Georgia, and in March
in the southern part Of the state. The
smooth pod is the best variety. Tomatoes,
| beans, squashes and egg plant cannot be
planted in the open ground until after the
frost period In Middle Georgia plantings
early in April are generally not injured.
Now and then late frost about the middle
of the month is severe enough to kill themi
Tomato, pepper and egg plant seed should
be sown in cold frames or boxes under
glass the latter part of February so as to
have good stocky plants ready to set out
by first Of April The German robe wax
beans are a very desirable kind in the homo
garden. but the old-time early valentine
and Mohawk, both bush, are good kinds and .
row or two every two or three weeks from
April | TO Aug. IS will keepa supply Of this
healthy and strengthening vegetable for the
family table, ard afford frequent distrl-
button to ones less fortunate neighbors. AS
one vegetable ceases to bear or IS used up,
plow or spade up the soil and replant to
some other kind appropriate to the season.
By pursuing :his plan and keeping the
quarter acre in constant growth food crops
70 the value of 500 may be secured from
il IN The course of the ~ months Accord
ing to the r!chess Of the soil and judge
ment displayed in manuring and rotating
promptly and properly value anywhere
from $25 to 5000 may be realized from IL.
Under the highest intensive system the lat
ter result is possible.
Farm and Stock Notes.