The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Garden Notes,

Unless It is impossible for him to nave more
ground. no man should have garden so small
power We occasionally see In the papers
what enormous amounts OF vegetables can ne
grown on O very small area. These accounts
are probably 4can snen W6ere
land is so valuable that 1t must be plastered
with bank notes to be bought: The ratio pc
tween cost of land and cost Of labor must oe
kept In View; and fully 90 per cent. or my
readers will find 1t the more economical TO
have the garden so large that horse and
horse tools can be used In It, The saving In Ia
bor will more than compensate lor tne grehCGiF s,i
OF an acre Is not too much garden ground for
the average family, though good methods ana
much manure are employed. Not one 1ar-
mer's family in hundred has as many Vege-
tables as it should have. We raise n few
uesses of peas or bcans-perhaps peck OF
each shelled--and think we do yell For a
family OF six, peas, beans, radlshes, etc.'
should be raised by the bushel. They can,
and should, be kept on the table, fresh, for
mouths In their season fresh vegetables are
.n2 cheapest and most wholesome 1000: You
can supply the table with vegetables OF your
own raising at less cost than by any other
means. Apparently some people never think
that vegetables reduce the grocers and the
butchers bills; but they do; and they also re.
duce the doctors bills, and defer the under
takers bills
To get the necessary amount Of vegetables,
It Is necessary to plant for succession; ana
this also economies ground: BY making dlt'
rieties we may have O vegetable fresh on the
table for several months. Sometimes two
vegetables may occupy the land at the same
time. For example, cabbage can be planted
before the early sweet corn Is removed, or late
beans can be planted among the early pota-
toes. Then several crops may be grown on
the same land during the season. In this lat
itude can first plant early peas; harvest
them as soon as they are ripe and put ne land
in cucumbers for pickles and Mt the last
working OF the cucumbers, sow turnip secd:
I get heavy crop OF cucumoers, peas ana
turnips. Further South. where the season Is
longer, five and even six crops may be got
nom the same ground in one season. Beans
or cabbage may follow early lettuce and rad
lshes, cucumbers or sweet corn the early peas,
or turnips can be sown among the cucumber
or melon vines.
AS already hinted, the cultivation should be
done as much az possible with horsepower.
When the vegetables will permit, horse cultl-
vatiop may always be made better and more
thorough than hand cultivation; not to speak
of It's greater economy. Even where the horse
can not be used 1t Is often possible to use the
wheel hoe or cultivator, ard with this the
common hoe. When the rows are straight
the work can be better and more easily done
than when they are crooked, and when they
are long than when they are short. Hence,
care should he taken TO make the rows
straight, and as long rs the ground will per
nit. With those vegetables that must be cul-
tivated altogether by rand, it Is equally Inn.
portant TO have the rows straight. And 1t is
made yet more important to have the rows
straight, no matter what the permissible
mode OF cultivation, when the vegetables are
such as come up small and delicate; onions,
carrots or parsnlpss for example. Also, for
these the drill should be made narrow; for
the wider the drill the more hand. wedding
will be necessary. II the drill is crooked and
three inches wide there will be three times as
much hand-weeding as when the drill is
straight and only one inch wide. A very con-
venient, and in fact, necessary garden tool is
stout cord two hundred feet long, with a
sharpened wooden pin fastened to each end.
easily made.