The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-11-27
THE FARM AND HOME.
HOW TO MANAGE A FIRST
CLASS GARDEN.
Ono That Yields Something Besides
Weeds-A New Idea In the Way Of
Fence Posts-Farm Notes
and Domestic Dots.
How Run NV Garden.


How L Run MY Garden.
Iselect about one acre of ground,
IN oblong shape sandy or gravelly
soil, sloping to the south. still better,
to the southeast; manure year after
year heavy, fence it and tend it well
and l assure any farmer who will do
this that he will get more solid COM
fort and benefit from that one acre
than he will off ten of his best farm
ing land; will live better, be healthier,
and have smaller store account to
settle, than he has by, the old way.
Too many gardens are nothing but a
little truck patch, says G. Camerer in
the Practical Farmer, laid out in beds
and walks more walks than beds, and
the women folks are expected to
tend it. It is suffered to grow up
In weeds, and by the time the owner
should have some vegetables on
his table. his garden has
became wildness of weeds briars
and everything else-but vegetables.
Then he grewls when he has to go to
the store and buy rice beans, canned
goods and other stuff for family sub
stance, all entirely out of their season.
Such farmers say: Il can't fool with a
garden" l find can, and it pays big,
but I plow my garden whenever
needed and generally before; one or
two hours at time will do the work.
Then I have wholesome food plenty
for my own table. to put up for the
winter, and some to spare to sell to
such as cant fool their time away
with a garden,
The way I manage my family gar
den of Que acre is this: A few rows of
extra early Irish potatoes for first use;
these come off here about the middle
or end of May; then l put the same
ground in celery, late cabbage, late
sugar corn or turnips-every one to
his own taste. Then few rows of
early sugar corn, followed by late cab
bage or late tomatoes, which come into
full bearing when the early vines are
stacking up. Then a few rows of
early bunch beans and peas adjoining;
between these set out late tomatoes.
Then a row of cucumbers; work late
SebOOcSO AOl q OOOOu0 SIOp OCUWOCu
the hills in the same row. Then.a few
rows OF early tomatoes Dwarf Cham
pion for first early and some other va
rieties to come in after.) Reset some
more paintings of the late sugar corn
(the Mammoth is best), paintings
about 10 to IA days apart up to July
1st. Reset a few rows of early bunch
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what 1 think indispensable in a
family garden-a few rows of Lima or
butter beans, which l train on wires
strung on temporary posts wires about
18 inches apart up to feet high.
Small stuff, such as radishes, lettuce
onions (seed and sets), parsnips,
oyster plants, carrots, etc, plant in
a patch by themselves, in rows IL
inches apart as they require the
ground for the whole season and have
to be worked by hand and hoe At
the last blowing, and when the proper
time comes, I SOW turnip seeds broad
cast over the whole garden; this will
keep down late weeds and grass. In
this way, have fresh vegetables
1luOob uu0 year dIOuuu1 NY SOll Is
never idle or grows weeds, and it is
source of pleasure, profit and health.
Besides these vegetables, / have few
rows of Strawberries and raspberries.
81 By managing my family garden this
way, / sell about $50 to 500 worth of
stuff, besides what we use for our fam
lily of eight and all with good ap-
petite. AS long as vegetables last we
have but very little use for pork and
other meat except for seasoning. We
dry and put up enough to last us all
winter and spring. until fresh sup
ply comes in. Live good deal more
economically, and better than those
who live on grocery supplies, butcher
shops and the pork barrel. Of course
such heavy cropping can only be done
on an acre that is heavily MANFRED ev-
cry year. say at least 25 two horse
loads of well-rotted manure or compost
put on every winter, and some more
between. whenever the first crop is
taken off and the second put in.