The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
1ntensifying ON Small Areas-NO. /

1t requires some years of actual expert
ence in the growing of the various vegeta-
bles to enable a gardener or trucker to for
rsulate the very best method of getting the
most from a given area. Beginning as a
novice this knowledge is not to be acquired
in one years time, or even two or three.
He may learn a great deal in the course
of such length of time, but he is likely
to find that he can learn little more eV-
cry year. The average American gar
dener has not been forced TO learn what
a French or Chinese cultivatCr knows of
the art of intensifying. The former has
not been restricted TO the limited area
that the latter must force nNlug out OF
or suffer the consequences. By his pro-
cess of doubling, tapping OF crops, and re
serve seed beds, the French gardener VIII
produce in u or Is months more crops and
more profit on one acre than a native
American gardener viii produce probably
on acres. or Whereabouts.
There are instances where two, and even
three crops. can be simultaneously started
in the same seed drill a second crop of
something can be Tapped" on the nrst
in such a manner as TO have the second
wen under way by the time the first has
been entirely removed. A fall started crop
harvested and converted into money IN
the early spring can be followed at once,
i'm April or May, perhaps in March, by
some tender crops, which in turn can be
followed, oftentimes, by a third CROP that
will mature before winter closes the sea
Where the soil is of good mechanical
condition, that is, does not have too great
an excess of clay or of sand, it is then only
a question of sufficient manuring to allow
of persistent and uninterrupted cropping
for many years. We cite a few instances
of appropriate SUGGESTIONS which followed.
Makes one acre produce what two or three
would be required to produce, If only one
planting was made. Where onion sets are
planted in the FALL or even in January,
a crop of tomatoes can be started on the
same land in March or April, by setting
a plant every three feet in the run. If the
onions are very thick one can be taken
out at this distance, regularly, and to-
mato plant put in it's place. BY the time
the onions are fully matured the toma-
toes will be ready to take full possession.
In sowing beets or carrots or parsnip in
January or February, radish seeds can
be sOWn in the same drill and VIII ma ture
ana be taken out of the way before the
beets are in anyway affected thereby.
Where Irish potatoes are planted IN three
feet rows. and the hills 20 or "A inches
apart in the row, a lettuce plant may be
set between each hill Of potatoes, and the
lettuce will head up before the potatoes
shade the soil injuriously.
A crop of sweet potatoes can adVanta-
May or June. Several times we have prac-
ticed the plan of planting very cary
and a very late variety OF potatoes IN al
ternate rows, the early kind being taken
out two or three weeks before the late
kind is matured. The second crop. whether
tomatoes or beans, or squashes, or cucum-
bers. may be stanted before the late po-
uatoes are taken out of the way.
English peas, especially when the dwarf
kinds are used, mature in May and earlier
sometimes. Every other middle can be pre-
pared by two scooter burrows, and toma-
toes okra or beans or several other crops,
can be stanted some little while before
the peas are entirely matured.