The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-14
OBJECT LESSON
IN GARDENING
FARGO WOMAN TELLS HOW SHE
HAS MADE PROFITABLE AND
BEAUTIFUL SPOT OUT OF
SMALL CITY LoT-sYsTEMATIc
PLAN FOR LAYING OUT GARDEN

In the city plot some ingenuity is
required to get results from a restrict
ed area, the experience of others who
have tried and made successful expert
ments may be of value. One of the
young married women who has been
successful on city lot, on the north
side. asked to give her experience,
said:
I'm the first place, the choice Of
seed varieties Is important in order
that a garden may be ornamental, use
full and profitable. ! found pole beans
and cosmos to make very effective dec
orations and at the same time to be
very useful. cosmos for a hedge, with
its height and dts feathery fern like
foliage is hard to equal for this pI:-
pose. / use the pole beans In arbors,
and together with the cosmos they
form shade and protection for such
vegetables as cannot stand the san and
heat we'll. / save my own pole bean
seed from year to year-the kind that
grows long pods, eight to ten inches
long. and about one to one and half
inches wide They are very tender and
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begin to dry. / have never tried, but
1 presume the same variety may be
obtained from the nursery. But these
beans are later than other string beans,
so for early use. one must have few
rows Of bush beans. or common string
beans. / prefer the yellow wax beans,
though one must suit her own taste In
this matter.
Study Character of Soil.
Then, perhaps your ground or you
may be better adapted to growing some
particular vegetable. Cabbage is in
demand in our vicinity, so / devoted
more space to 1t. / had a hot bed. so
plants were easily obtained I usually
find that plants transplanted quite
small grow faster and larger than those
allowed to grow longer in the hot bed.
my garden comes out to the side
walk on one side Of the house, so 1t is
necessary to have something ornament
al on that side Last year / planted
some Gamma seed. and of course they
did not bloom this year, but they did
raise an abundance of roots, so with
these and a few named sorts which |
expect to get from the nursery, / an
ticipate a nice large Gamma bed with
perhaps q calIodium for a center, and
border of geraniums. You may raise
the objection that this would take too
many geaniums 1t doesn't, but Il
takes a great deal of patience. Two
years ago / obtained a cutting of
beautiful dark red geranium, which
with good care. soon became a very
large plant. The next spring / cut tina:
large plant up into as many cuttings
as I could get, rooted them in sand and
when warm weather came / set item
out. They in turn grew rapidly and
by next to be able to subdivide them
enough to make a fine border for my
Gamma bed. This bed is at the south
end of the garden, next to the walk
Space for Potted Plants.
"Just north of this bed / reserve a
few feet for potted flowers may wish
to put out for the summer which. with
a border Of alyssum and for get mo-
nots. is beauty in itself. for these
house flowers consist of everblooming
roses, carnations, geraniums, cycla-
mems, chrysanthemums. oleanders and
tube roses which / start then for
autumn blooming.
Next to this / had rows of lettuce.
radishes. onions. cress, a few peppers
a little thyme, little dill and my rhu-
barb and Gladlolus in the background
Then came the peas, four rows across
the garden. the last row being inter-
sected by circle about four feet in
diameter. This is where my sweet peas
were planted and trained up In the
form of a wigwam. with an opening on
the north for a door.
About fifteen feet north of this was
another wigwam of pole beans facing
one of sweet peas, and on the edge of
my lima beans, the string beans Just
next to them. The effect of these two
wigwams with background of cos
mos, cucumbers planted in the inter-
vening space and few choice dahlias
On each side In the foreground must
be seen to be appreciated. Since Gu
cannot stand too much heat
the protection of the cosmos and wig
vans in the forenoon and shade of the
house in the afternoon made them ex-
productive.
Plan EN- in Rows.
Next to the beans came late rad
She's carrots, parsnipsf parsley, sal 81 |
", turnips, beets, kale, kohl, and toma- |
oes, all in rows; / plant everything in |