The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-12
Winter Vegetables in Hampton
County. South Carolina.

Winter Vegetables I'm Hampton
County, South Carolina.
D. B. T.. Hampton county,
South Caroline, writes, us as
follows: We are a hunting club,
open from December to April. We are
DESTROYS of raising all the garden truck
that can be had in the open air and
under glass in cold frames for that
period. For winter supply our fail
ures so far are egg plants. tomatoes,
peas and satisfy. The heads of our
Brussel sprouts are not sufficiently
solid. We have an asparagus bed I'M
der glass from two-year old roots set
out last spring. Caulihower under
glass were badly damaged by cabbage
worms. Our endive was luxurious but
did not bleach well. Our satisfy makes
no root worth mentioning.
For fertilizer we have stable COM
post in abundance and well rotted.
Can you make any suggestion re-
garding the sprouts" and the forcing
of asparagus, destroying the cabbage
worms and improving the satisfy.
The borers are bad on our peach
and Japan plums, also on such shrubs
as English laurel, mock orange, dou-
ble-fiowering peach, etc. Have tried
kerosene emulsion and sulpho- tobacco
soap without much benefit.
Would be glad to procure any work
on gardening that is adapted to this
climate. We have a very good gar
den of such vegetables as beets, cab
bage, carrots, celery, kale, kohl rabbi,
leeks, lettuce radish, turnips, spin
ach and parsnip. The menu we have
had with these increases the desire to
round out with a full supply of all
that the climate will afford.
We would advise ID. B. T." to pro-
cure Whites Gardening For the South
and Oemler's Truck Gardening, both
of which he can procure from the
American Agricultural Publishing Co,
of New York. These two works
will give pretty much all the
information that he seeks OF
course to supply the vegetable
for the period named, De-
cember to April, much of the work
will have to be done during the two
or three months prior to December.
The manuring of the soil and its full
preparation with pillow and harrow
must be done as early as September
and October. The cabbage worms can
be checkmated in the open and under
grass DN using pyTScIruIl pOWueI
freely busted on the plants.
Asparagus in the open can be count
ed on only in March and April but
under glass t can be forced earlier
if the necessary heat is secured and
also the necessary moisture. Satisfy
requires very deep, rich soil for best
results. The seed should be planted
as soon after September as possible.
The Sandwich Island is the best at
any rate grows the largest.
There is a difference in Brussels
sprouts as in caulifower 1t is we'll
to try two or three kinds each year
until the best is found. Some make
loose heads as the result of deterio-
ration. Get a pure strain of seeds
from j. /. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass,
If present kinds do not give satisfac-
ton There is only one effective way
of destroying borers and that is with
knife and sharp pointed wire. But
1t is helpful to draw the soil clear
away from about the tree trunks and
leave exposed during the winter and
then along in March fill up the holes
about the stems with lime, tainted with
kerosene oil or carbolic acid.
In forcing one must nave control or
the necessary moisture to assure sue
cess