The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-07

t1le SIOuId, dId II NOd IhiA
as bluegrass seed with it 0 Will
make a summer and winter pasture.
TIMELY WORK IN THE GARDEN.
When the early peas are off clean
up the vines and get some other crop
on the land. Where my early peas
are | have some late-SOWn tomato
plants4 coming on ready to set after
the peas are cleaned Up, and these
Will hold the land the rest OF the sea-
son, as they Will follow my early to-
matOeS.
| usually get some tomato plants
out in the garden by the middle or
April but it was the last of the month
this year before it seemed safe to set
them. Then | watched the weather
reports for they are sometimes right,
and If frost threatens | benz the
plants Town and shovel the soil over
them till the cold has passed and then
uncover them. l once carried the
plants through a freeze down to 20
degrees in this way.
For these and the butter beans I
use the c~hicken-wire netting for them
to run on for l do not like the ugly
bean poles in the garden. The wire
netting is better and far cheaper than
SOfDS mo Tie NOOuS 70 CUT TIE pOlcS,
for it is rolled up When not in use,
and will last a life time. l use it also
to train tomato plants on, planting
them only two fee apart in rows
three feet apart and training to single
stems. Ii tomato plants are let sprawl
on the ground they soon get smother
ed up with crab grass and cannot be
kept clean, but where they are train
ed up YOU can keep the ground clean.
The early Norfolk corr hat was
planted in March is now we'll up and
a been twice cultivated and the
early sugar corn. the Malakoff, is also
we'll above the ground and has been
nee cultivated. The extra early SUI
gar corn seldom mount to much in
the South, but We try to have a little
as early as possible. Plant now
Country Gentleman and StowelTs
Evergreen, Doth Of which do we'll in
the South.
My main dependence for lima beans
is on the little butter bean which
bears better han the large lima, and
| think is better to eat.
Then | plant some of the Fordhook
Bush lima beans These belong to the
thick-seeded or potato lima beans and
bear very much better than the large
white limas.
Elephants keep in pots till late in
May as they are very tender and need
the soil to be we'll warmed before set
ting. Further south they can go out
early in May.
II you like carrots, SOW some Of the
early French forcing sorts. They
grow about as quickly as a radish anG
are nice in soups. Then, by al
means plant a few seed Of the chard
his is q sort Of beet, the top of which
lS Plten on ran null off tho 1oo-~r
all summer and we strip the Leaf
stalks and cook them like
and boil n leaf blades for green's
and both are fine; the leaves resnble
spinach very much and give US spin
ach in hot weather.
My Prizetaker onions thai were
sown in frames under glass in Febru
airy are now transplanted. These viii
make big yellow and mild onions tina
are like those imported in crates from
SPAN often seen at the grocery stores
They will often weigh over a pound
each. This onion further south
should be SOWn in September in thu
open ground n t~ranSplanted in earl,
spring. Some years 6 at an inSi
tute held at BiltmOre, n. O.. a farnoe,
brought in some of the Prizetaker on
ions that weighed fully a pound, say
ing that | had told him how to grow
mem and he wanted to show me tina
he had done it.
My seed Of the Early Norfolk Quee,
onion were soWn in late April yer,
thickly in rows to make sets for plant
ing IN the fall for early green onions
Seed can still be soWn on soil Of onl
moderate fertility, and sown YER
thickly and they will make prett
sets.
[ The earliest sweet potato but no
Of the highest quality is the HayInal
or Southern Queen. The Nancy Hal
is getting popular, too. 1t is rathe
deep yellow. but not SO deep yellow a
the Pumpkin Yam. For the Norther