The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-20

~ 10 suit the number of sashes.
- "a frames usually are ono board
&ssehesl high in front, and two boards
|{isTehesl high at back, but where these
E1asu are permanent fixtures, and where
/ = Saee used for hotbeds as we'll as cold
- nit IL to "a inches deep is dug
"a ~ lined with boards or plank. three
J s1f boards high at the back and two or
- hoards high in front. In the inside
Eander each end of each crossbar there
= "a b post and the ends OF the cross
I. sotehed 70 fit on to them, rs shown
- + y Illustration: this serves AZ brace
- nsvents the sides being pressed in by
sasieht Of earth against them.
/ ga frames for winter work should face
nASmth or southeast to give them the
Skt Of the sunshine, but wherever cold
80 are placed protect them from the
al, and southwest winds. In small gar
q this shelter il generally afforded
- i!ase board fences, hedges or contigu-
= Aulldings, and on truck farms the
nsHAes gardeners build high, close wooden
ka4as around their frame grounds to pro-
-: tsem from the winds. Our illustra-
|Ips thovs Q corner of our vegetable frame
{SeSs 1ides BY q makeshift thick fence of
(0t zine branches that rises higher than a
|hoSf3 fence would and answers the pur-
|Sptiss admirably. We first sink and
|1na some posts in the ground,
|kxn, run . string Of saplings
|ttte usxr the top from post 10
Epua md fastened to the posts with wire,
/ ~ against this bar we stand up the pine
Etnsehes with their thick ends stuck into
/ ~ gtound, and tie the main limbs to the
essaaF with marlin. 1t make capital
k4hgoak. These frames are filled with
Ssssng lettuces and are protected from
k&1as b. covering the sashes with the
EAE mats you see rolled up there, and in
~ sysnt a quite severe weather we add
Sou5eso1fe over the mats and thin board
aopa1n, Il We have them to spare. over
~ W sls0 bank around them up to the
be.a With earth or ashes. This helps to
~ thsm warm and sheds the water.
e January the lettuces in the frames
NJ have been cut and the frames ready
Il snother crop. January we SOW let
ns I'D in box in the greenhouse and
rsss Il on into another box within two
0s.Se days after II comes up, and in
~ OF ten days more pot the little plants
Nc * or Sinch pots. still keeping them
as shelf UP near the glass i'm the green
hGsss and ready for transplanting into a
A;son as this frame is emptied of its
9ts - throw out the loan, which Is
Nit az inches deep. into heap at
hs ade; then the old manure that
- the bottom of it (for it was
ysst springs hotbed and the old
hs srs Is in i yeti is thrown out and
sEfsd away. In the meantime We will
oaff. IN readiness lot of fresh manure for
eE':oed and make up the new bed in the
rskA When the heat Is we'll started the
oaissis put back again, and in n few days.
Ga soon ss /: is safe TO 10 so. We trans
Rstm our letiuces from the pots in the
Ftsihouscs to the hotbeds. We will ex-
n 70 begin cutting from this frame
~: ne end OF March. BY that time the
- WI Be pretty much gone, but by
knssslne 1t once We can get another crop
Atnces ut to cut in May. We leave the
Sshafs IN the frame all summer so as to
80 NE frame full enough in the fall.
often happens that We have to add
sESN deal more Killing in the fall because
s0s 'asnore has rotted down considerably.