The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-17
BUTTER BEANS, SNAPS, SQUASRES,
CORN AND TOMATOES TILL FROST
READY NOWTO HAVE THE BEST GARDEN OFYOUR LIFE TIME
IT WILL MEAN MORE HEALTH MORE HAPPINESS 10 PLANT

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the Southern farmer is no exception.
Except in the trucking sections of
the coastal country one finds vegeta-
bles few on the tables of the farm
ers. We have no objection to the
! Black Eye peas and sweet potatoes,
and even collards, but in a climate
where one can have a plentiful sup
| ply Of ali sorts of vegetables there is
no excuse for having only these and
a few roasting ears from the corn
fields.
Then in going through the country
in late summer we find the gardens
that were planted in the spring grown
liz in weeds and the dead corn stalks
standing even in the village gardens.
There is no excuse for this, for we
can by little forethought keep up a
constant supply of the best vegeta-
bles.
Asparagus For Example. - How
few farmers have an asparagus bed!
And yet there is no crop more easily
rich with manure worked in deeply
and sow the. seed in rows four feet
apart and thin out to two feet apart,
and the very next spring you can cut
some to eat, and if you keep the bed
well MANFRED every fall it will in
crease in product year after year. Do
not bother about transplanting roots,
for you can get asparagus quicker
from the seed.
And Why Not Have Snaps, Butter
Beans and Roasting Ears Till FrCst?
Sow now the first Valentine beans
and as fast as a row is fairly up SOW
another, and so on till late August,
and you will have snaps all summer
till frost. Plant some Adams Early
corn, and as soon as it shows plant
some Mammoth Sugar corn or Stow
ellis Evergreen, and then save your
own seed. Homegrown seed will al
ways be best. Plant a succession of
corn, too, till early August and have
corn till frost. Plant Woods Bush
Lima beans, and keep the green pods
we'll picked, for if they are allowed
to ripen they will stop blooming, but
they will keep beATing if we'll picked.
The tall Dreer's Lima bean is the
best Of the large Limas for the South,
and is best grown by planting in rows
and thinning to two feet apart and
then using some chicken netting for
them to run on and not bothering
with poles.
Onions and Beets. - Sow seed of
Tait's Queen onion very thickly to
make sets for planting in the fall to
give you green onions from February
on. Sow the seed in narrow rows
very thickly. A piece of bed six by
ten feet will hold pound of seed,
for the little drills may be almost
filled with the seed, the object being
to get sets no larger than a small
marble. Sow Early Eclipse beets and
scatter few radfsh seed along the
rows to mark them and to come out
before the beets need thinning. The
Blood turnip beets are sown at same
time for later USE The half long
beets can be sown in July after some
early crop is off. These will be fine
all winter if the soil is thrown to the
rows late in fall.
Try Some Egg Plant, Parsnips and
Satisfy Plant White Spine. cucum-
bers in we'll MANFRED hills for table
use now, and later in July plant more
for pickles. Egg plants are too little
grown in the South 1t is too late to
SOW the seed, but you can get plants
cheaply from the seedsmen and set
them in May when the ground is
warm, and then keep the potato bugs
picked off them and you will have a
dish that any one will appreciate.
Sow parsnips and satisfy in July.
These make their best growth after
the weather gets cool and will grow
all winter. They are sown in the
spring in the North, but in the South
they are apt to get woody and run to
seed in late summer If sown early.
Satisfy is commonly called oyster
plant, and the boiled roots mashed
up and made into fritters are very
much like oysters. Then the satisfy
and parsnips give vegetables in win