The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-04-23

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do it all myself, for one takes more pride in his
own work than that which he hires done.
bought dwelling with lot fronting SO feet on
one street and running back $50 feet ON another'
This lot wanted to make ornamental with lawn
and shrubbery and few fruit trees and grape
vines But | wanted a kitchen garden, and right
alongside another lot of the same size.
am out within block Of the city limits,
and there are vacant lots all around. / can re-
member when | could have bought all the land
around me for $40 an acre before the city spread
out this way. But paid at the rate of 49,
900 an acre for that vacant lot alongside OF me
and every one thinks got it very cheap. A pret-
ty high-priced garden, but never going to be
worth any less, and it is to be real garden.
I covered it all over with stable manure from
New York that cost So ton on the ground, and
| am adding high-grade fertilizer. This land
has been used in truck gardens for years, and is
a good sandy soil with little way down clay
hard that only pick will touch it, Hence II
retains moisture finely
| hastened to get some peas in in February
and some early beets, and then the neighbors'
hens began to cultivate it for me. So l had to
make fence of poultry wire all around 1t. This
fence is pretty but is substantially built with
x scantling along the top and Dashboard
to prevent the hens from scratching under. At
the north end and outside the west side have
planted some peach trees and plum trees to make
fruit and act a wind-break to the garden. And
all along one side / have planted eleven sorts of
grapes. Along the front fence next the street I
have sweet peas TO make ii look well for time
and going to put clematis and Crimson Ram
bier there for permanent adornment. Then
back on the sunny side OF the barn have a frame
covered with glass sashes in which tomato plants
have been transplanted and will go out into
the garden, and in another frame / have lots of
flower seed sown and growing. I have hundreds
OF dahlias coming on from seed, for can grow
a dahlia to bloom from seed almost as soon as
from the roots. and it is fun to see how they turn
out in the flowers. On side the dwelling
along the porch that around two sides, /
have shrubbery border in which / have planted
thirty varieties OF blooming shrubbery, including
white and pink crepe myrtles and wstaria TO
climb on the porch. The wire fence in the ktch-
en- garden will be utilized to a great extent for
my lima beans and will save poles. On the north
end have the tall Champion OF England peas to
run on the fence. and on part of the west side
where there are no grape vines shall have the
climbing nasturtiums
do not want mere truck patch and hence
have made borders around the inside of the fences
for radishes, late cabbage plants mustard etc -
and walk all around and across the gar
den, making two blocks or squares The tall
growing things will be kept at the north end SO
as not TO shut out the sunshine from the lower
growing plants that are to the south The early
peas viii soon be in bloom, and will be followed
J 4by the Champion Of England Beets are up thick
~ and Will have lots OF Trimmings to transplant
Inc early corn rats Early, has been planted
and succession viii be kept up OF sugar corn
rats Early is not sugar corn, but is early and
VIII be followed by the Country Gentleman sweet
corn and Stowell's Evergreen
Onions have of course, and now that Anru Is
bringing us little rain. and the weather con.
uhues not, shall now try some snaps outside
April 4th is early in this latitude for snaps NV
tomato plants that have been once transplanted
In the frames will be stout and short plants and
not the leggy sort one from thickIv conn. -