Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-04-14
A GARDEN THAT PAYS.
Farmer Tells How He Supplies His
Family with Vegetables.
News and Courier Specially

(News and Courier Specially
Florence, April II. n. Parrot,
successful farmer of elm, in the
lower part of the county, gives quite
an interesting account OF How he
makes garden that pays" and, in
asmuch as 1T is so interesting, the
story Is here retold. Mr.. Parrott is
not only farmer and a gardener,
but he is also poet, as will be noted
at the end Of the news item:
had, growing in my garden, on
ST. Valentines Day, collards, onions
ard turnip tops that make dishes
daily fit for kings. In fact, there Is
not day in the year that passes
without supply Of fresh vegetables
Tor family use. In order to grow
such crops, start by sowing Wake
field cabbage and prize taker onion
seed III october, and now have both
transplanted and flourishing, even
after the recent disastrous freeze.
The young plants Of these and beets
will stand as much cold and exposure
through the winter as will oats or
barley.
My peas-the Alaska--are up and
growing, as are also my beets and
kale. Bliss triumph potatoes-both
white and red--are coming up nicely
and will need some covering or straw
or leaves during the next cold snap.
Strawberries also survive and are
blooming and bearing unaffected by
the weather
TO continue: | plant beans, corn,
tomatoes and okra about the first of
March, and make monthly plantings
OF corn and beans for a succession.
thus securing a full supply for the
table for seven months, and a sur
plus for canning. In April | plant
collards, with which horses, cows and
hogs are freely fed until the first
freeze in the fall. when for family
use they succeed cabbage and are
then superior to the latter as a table
dish. They in fact have now become
'Palmetto cabbage" though grown
from seed of Georgia collards.
This land has been used as a gar
den sixty years, and with the use of
stall and poultry manure increases
in fertility with age, the use Of com
mercial fertilizers for vegetables ha, =
ing been entirely abandoned. AS a
sample of one of the thousands of the
gardens OF 'one-horse farmers" it
shows the great advantage of using
home-raised manure and seed, and
working in accordance with the laws
of nature. | use seed of last years
second crop of beans, potatoes, to-
matoes and sugar corn, which are
better than seed of the first crop.
In fact, l have beans Of the third
crop to plant next month of the kind
advertised by seedmen as "A Thou
sand to One which would amount
q more than a million from one
bean the same season. What en-
couragement for all to take advant-
age of and make the most of our op-
portunities. Then, indeed, will com
ing carnations rise up to bless the
men with the hoe and behind the
plow.
This garden produces an abund-
ance for family OF seven, all the
year, and is worth at least $40 to
each, making $14O from one-quarter
acre Annually
Green truck is in the garden and DO
tatoes on the way.
Peas are also growing and there's
green's for every day;
Well have squashes and tomatoes
and cabbages when they head,
And onions by the bushel and beets
both white and red.
Thcren be beans from off the
punches and beans upon the
pole;
We will have them hot for dinner
and at supper eat them cold;
And lettuce, young and tender, and
also sugar corn,
I 0 keen us all rejoicing that in Diyia