The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-07-13
The Family Garden.


There is 10 adjunct to a home that
affords as much pleasure and profit as
4 well planned, we'll planted and
we'll cultivated garden, and l use the
word in its broadest sense.
The family garden should be conve-
should consist of about one acre of
land, and enclosed with we'll con-
structed and substantial poultry fence.
The plot should be literally fertiliZed
with COW or horse manure, and it
should be broken early and deep, and
narrowed several times to make the
soil fine and to thoroughly incorporate
the manure before the early planting
begins. The garden should be divided
into four plots by making walks both
ways through the middle of the gar
den. crossing in the centre. These
walks should be laid off with a line,
about three feet wide. with little gut
tiers or drains on each side next to the
beds or squares, and should be oval
shaped so that even in wet weather
there would be high and dryer place
to walk.
The selection of seed, the varieties
and when and how to plant are very
important. 1t is also important to lay
all rows with a line and equi-distant.
Nothing adds more to appearances If
not to results than order and system in
the garden, and where this is practiced
YOU may make sure there will be re-
suits.
The garden should have a four-year
system Of rotation, just as the fields
should have, in order to obtain best re-
suits from your plants. The plots
should be numbered /, 2, 3 and 4 and
should rotate around once in four years.
For instance. I would take plot No. l
and plant spring turnips, radishes. let
tCce, onions or any other early matur-
ing crop you may fancy. and as these
came off would plant late corn and
bean patch by planting every other
row.
On plot No. . I would have two
planting Of Irish potatoes, and just
before these mature would plant corn
and beans in every other row, or it
might be devoted to late cabbage
patch or some other late crop, and
whatever crop was selected to follow
the potatoes could be worked as the
potatoes were removed.
On plot No. 3 1 would have two
paintings of corn for roasting ears,
and when the corn was waist high
put in white crowder peas. As the
ears were pulled from the stalks
would cut out for the corn and give
the peas more room.
On plot No. would plant all the
later varieties of vegetables, such as
tomatoes. beets, cucuanbers, squashes,
or other varieties the fancy dictated,
that come on in the summer.
would rotate these crops so that,
to illustrate. the potatoes would not
be planted on the same spot but once
in four years.
l would plant along the borders Of
the walks few sage bushes, thyme.
asparagus and other such useful gar"
den plants, but l would have no fruit
trees. currantS. strawberries, raSpber-
rieS or grape vines in the garden, but
would have all these and other fruit
in an orchard set apart for the pur-
pose. Such things in garden not
only interferes with the proper rota-
ton system, but they shade and draw
froa! the vegetables and prevent their
full development.
Such q, garden as I have planned,
planted and worked would be a thing
of beauty and JOY forever, and when
YOU come in OH hot summers day
ard sit down to the midday meal, con-
tamplating with ravished eye and
an aching void in the region of the
stomach the many tempting dishes
that the good wife (not slothful SER
vanO has prepared, you will feel like
"praising God from whom all bless
inss flows. H. Christopher, Buena
Vista. Ca, Southern Cultivator.