Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-14
Double Cropping In the Garden.

William H. Bull IT. Garden ana FOreSt.l
 It is no. practicable in all gardens to grow more than one crop in 8 season. Land free from stone and clay, lying high, dry and level, is best suited for such attempts. A good way to begin is to plough in heavy coat of manure in the fall, and in the winter or early spring to spread on as much more. This, worked into the soil as soon as it is dry in spring, with plough and harrow, fur nishes food enough to carry two crops with the help of special fertilizers applied during the growing season.
 Cabbage and lettuce can grow together in rows three feet apart, the plants of cabbage two and half feet apart in the rows. with l lettuce between. Setting a row of lettuce between each row would double the crop, l but would necessitate hosing by hand. Ear | ly onion sets can be followed by cucumbers. Onion seed sown in groups of six rows, with | the next space left for TOW of celery, is a good arrangement, Nas the onions can be off before it is time to bank the celery. Spinach | and peas (of dwarf varieties) make good irss crop, to be succeeded by celery; early beets and sweet corn hold the ground almost | too long for the advantage of the celery crop; horse radish set between plants of early cab bage will come to maturity after the cabbage is removed, and make good roots in one sea- sons growth, if small root six inches long is dropped into a hole eight inches deep eve- " two feet when the rows are three feet apart at least. Early radish or spinach, be- tween rows of horse flesh, leave the ground early and give a long season for the horse radish. Beans can follow early peas if plant ed by the first of July. Cucumbers planted
 the first week in July may succeed spinach.
 Late spinach can follow early beets, and two l crops of beets-the last one sown July 15-
 are not an impossibility. Two crops of
 cabbage-an early and late-can be grown
 on the same land, but good season is neces-
 sary, and prompt connection between one
 crop and the other.
 The double cropping pays only on vel
 manured land, and should not be undertaken
 without such preparation. The secret ol
 success is in supplying abundant plant fooo to the growing crops, in soluble form, te
 make a quick growth. Perhaps there if
 nothing better for such a special fertilizer,
 applied in May and July, than nitrate oi
 soda-broadcass and hood into the soil. Its
 action is rapid and soon spent, an over ap.
 plication is waste, as the plants only ap
 propriate small quantity. In dry timel
 water must be supplied to carry along the
 crops. One great drawback in double crop
 ping is the tramping down and compactint 1. the land, in the work necessary to keep tn
 crops free of weeds, and gather one crop while not injuring the other, especially whel both crops grow till July on the sam
 ground. The earlier the frst crop Is re moved the better, and the clearing of on crop before the other is placed in the Ian, F gives an opportunity to turn up the soi afresh. Where the horse can be used be F tween rows less hand work of course is ne
 cessary, but double cropping increases yer , much the area of the garden, and quick . . grown vegetables gre much better than oth ,