The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17
How to Turn the
Bacik 7YGrd Into
q Garden

yard for the expenditure OF little
effort and common sense In addition.
Or a vegetable garden for dollar.
Here is what any scotsman will give
you for the money:
Two rose bushes Two blackberry bushes
dozen pansy plants Two raspberry bushes
Two eeraniums Two lilac bushes
a plat of vioiets trellis of sweet peas
And for the vegetable garden enough
seed for two rows 20 feet long Of each
Of the following:
Beets lNasturtiums
Carrots Spinach
Wax or lima beans Turnips
Cabbages lRhubarb
Lettuce Artichokes
Onions Asparagus roots
Parsley Melons
Peas Tomatoes
Radishes
For tools you will need:
spsdins fork garden rake
hoe
Before beginning work carefully plan
your garden. For the vegetables lay
of an oblong plat, the rows to run
lengthwise. Then decide where you will
place your bushes and shrubs.
Plant the pansies in a clump, or in q
row each side of the walk. The rose
bushes would go well opposite each
other by the kitchen steps. At the other
end Of the walk, by the shed or gate,
place the berry bushes. Train the sweet
peas and nasturtiums alongside the
fence so that they Will cover the bare
boards with their luxuriant creepers.
The geraniums and the lilac bushes can
be placed almost anywhere. In laying
out the garden use care not to plant
the climbers where they will shade the
other growing things.
II you live in San Francisco the soil
in your back yard is probably the best
you need for your garden. Neverthe-
less a helping hand lent nature often
pays big dividends and fertilizer is an
aid for most crops.
Secure some manure and spread 1t
about an inch deep over the land. Then
spade the soil well. turning the ma
nure under. Dig the soil loose until
the Jumps are all crumbled. The spad-
ing should be from six TO eight inches
in depth. The surface dirt should be
made fine with the rake
When the spading has been thor
oughly done you are ready to make
your furrows. A pointed stick, cor
ner of the spade, a rake or lath Will
do well for this Simply mark a trench
in the fine earth few inches deep. In
this SOW the seed or set the plants
six inches apart. Make a hole in the
earth with your finger to set them in.
Plant the violets the same way in q
clump near the house, where they will
be most of the day IN the shade. For
the rose bushes dig a hole with the
spade, setting in the plants and loosely
packing the earth about the roots.
In planting the seeds for the sweet
peas and nasturtiums use care not to
8 IL Il T.. to
take made by most amateur gardeners.
For safe average put three seeds to-
gether each six inches of the sweet
peas and strew the nasturtium seeds at
intervals of an inch or so in the trench
YOU have laid out for them. After the
/ seeds have been sown turn the earth
upon them lightly. Sow the vegetable
seeds in the same manner as the flower
seeds.
When your garden has been set out
watch for weeds. If the land is worth
anything at all weeds will appear. Keep
/ the weeds down.. This is practically all
the attention your garden will need in
this climate until June. When the land
looks thirsty in the summer time begin
regularly watering your flower plants.
For a small garden a sprinkler water
ing can is the best you can get. Use
care in watering the plants so that the
water viii get at the roots of the
plants instead of being sprayed merely
over their tops. With the flowers water
every other day after 4 o'clock in the
afternoon when the sun is low in the
horizon. The vegetables will need
very little irrigation. AS for them you
will have to be guided by your judg-
ment.
Within week after you have planted
your seeds green sprouts Will appear.
Then thin out the rows so that the
plants will be from four to six inches
apart. Don't let the vegetables grow
close together or the crop will not be a
hardy one.
Advance in Fertilizers
Crops grow only in consequence of
the food placed at their disposal; prac-
tically the plant foods consist of GER
tain combinations Of mixtures of nitro