The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-22
some Vegetable crops.

Dies tndt pay the most prOut are tnosS
that come earliest In the season and those
that pay the next best profit are those
that come OH very late in the season
Those that come in between. the two ex-
tremes pay the least This is specially
true of those staple vegetables, tomatoes
cabbage, onions, Irish potatoes. four veg
etables that usually pay the expert grow
er very fair, if not very great profit.
Canning vegetables has or late years
been reduced to sach science there does
not exist now the same universal craving
for fresh vegetables along in March and
| April as once was years ago before can
ming vegetables was brought to such per-
lection. Now nearly every vegetable can
be had in cans all through the winter,
and most of them in such shape they are
hardly to be distinguished from those
freshly gathered from the garden. Thus
we have green peas, asparagus, green
corn, snap beans, tomatoes, okra succo-
fash and several combinations for vegeta-
bic soup, which, along with other things
that might be named render a first-class
grocery store a garden almost perennial.
Using these preserved vegetables along
during the winter and early spring we have
not the eager desire for the fresh products
that we did some years ago, consequent
ly we are not willing TO pay those fancy
prices for the first products of the gar
den that encourages the trucker to his
best efforts to have the earliest yegeta-
bles possible.
II is only those salad plants that are
used raw. such as lettuce, celery, radishes,
| that can have no competition from a can
ned article that are sought in the early
| spring with the same avidity that they
| always were Those who put these vege-
tables on the market early still reap
| rich reward for all the enterprise dis
| played in producing them.
The expert grower who is ss.ie to put
on the market the very earlie, end the
| very latest OF certain vegettsaes is the
one that makes the most money out of
his business.
Late Tomatoes-Now, in regard to the
| splendid vegetable there is good reason
why late crop ripening its fruit in Oc-
tooer, should ordinarily be salable at bet
| ter prices than those that ripen in JuIv
! and August. In these two months the
! great bulk of the crop ripens. The mar
ket is glutted with them. Prices neces-
sarily fall very low. October tomatoes
| are very eagerly sought after bv those
| VINO put them up in cans or make into
| catsup, and then there is sale for green
tomatoes in October for picking purposes
when there is no demand for them in july
or August. Housewives prefer to do their
canning and picking as late in the sea-
son as possible
| This late crop of tomatoes should he
planted out in July and certain variety
| IKE the champion Dwarf and the Aris-
| tocrat can be set out as late as the first
week In August Qn Middle Georgia.. For
this very late crop it is not desira BILE TO
| plant any variety earlier than the middle
OF july sowing the seed in seed beds
about the first of July or last of June.
Inc soil should be put In nice condi-
ton with the pillow and roller by June 90
| In growing this late crop we have found
| it advantageous somewhat to use the
| dwarf sorts named and set three plants
about stake and before they fall over
enclrcle the plants and stake with a stout
| cord 20 keep the vines off of the ground.
The plants are set in triangle with the
| plants ten or twelve inches apart. The
rows should be four feet apart and a trio
OF plants every three feet in the row. In
late october, If frost threatens, it is easy
| to lay an old sack on the vines and protect
from frost and thus keep the vines in
bearing well into November Before kill
| ing frost occurs many of these vines can
| be pulled up and hung up i'm the loft
| and yield ripe tomatoes off and on until
! Christmas. This late crop should be cul-
tivated very shallow and just enough to
! keep down the weeds but the soil should
have been deeply plowed to start with.
This late crop we have always found
| freer from blight and rot than the early
crop, and usually produces much larger
| return of fruit-that is, If protracted
drought does not occur in September but
one or two good rains in August and
September will usually make a crop If the
cultivation is just right.
| Onion-Growing In Georga.-It is really
| strange that so few Georgia gardeners or
! truckers know how easily onions are
grown from the seeds, that it is much
| cheaper every way to make commercial
onions in that manner. The great major
| Ky of gardeners still plantn sets and
half the time fail to make good onions
| with them.
! II is just about as easy to grow onion
| from seeds as it is TO grow satisfy or car
rots or turnips. As an average thing half
the sets planted in Georgia shoot to seed
in May, instead of making onions fit for
\ food. OF course; it requires little more
| care to get crop started off from the
| seeds, but after the start is made all the
! advantages are on the side of the crop
grown from the seeds. There will be no
shooting to seed and the onions so made
| keep much better than any grown from
sets.
The Bermuda onion is perhaps the best
to grow, but most of the Italian or Span
| ish sorts succeed as we'll Some of these,
however are better keepers than others.
! The Queen, a white fiat onion, is quick
ly maturing onion and makes a fine bulb
ia 100 days from sowing the seed. The
FL Paso is a good kind. With either of
these varieties II is quite possible to make
several hundred bushels of onions on an
acre managed intensively. In Middle
Georgia these onions sown early in No
LAT Ia, n,N.
jured by the January freezes. Sown early
in February, they mature a fine bulb BY
June. An acre well prepared by the pillow
and then tended with the garden plow
and rake or scutile hoe can be made to yield
fully 500 bushels IL the rows are not more