Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-03-06
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Article LXIV.
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Entirely too little attention is paid
to the garden by our South Carolina
farmers. In the mad rush to grow
as much cotton as possible the garden
Is lost sight Of to a great extent. If
one-half acre is planted in garden
crops on good soil and given good
fertilization and cultivation, 1t will
produce as much profit as a whole
acre Uf cotton. One years trial with
accurately kept accounts will con-
vince any one that the above state
ment Is true
The greatest mistake made by
those who pay some attention to the
garden lies in the fact that they plant
the whole thing at one time-just as
II 1T were cotton field. The result
Is an abundance Of vegetables for a
few weeks, and that Is the end Of the
garden until next year. This should
not be the case. A succession Of one
or more Of the following varieties
should be planted:
Alaska, Lightning Excelsior and
Champion Of England garden or
greer peas.
Hodson green pod, Black Valen-
tine, New Pencil pod Black Wax
snap beans.
|ssg$Extra early Egyptian, Crimson
CHOW and Detroit dark red beets
Half Long Danver carrots.
Charleston Wakefield, Early Jer-
| sey Wakefield, All Seasons and Large
Flat Dutch cabbage.
Early Green Cluster, Improved
Long Green, Thorburn's Everbearing
cucumbers.
Country Gentleman and ordinary
field varieties Of corn.
Black Beauty and Florida High
Bush egg plants.
Cabbage, Big Boston and Improved
Hanson lettuce.
Extra early White Pearl, Prize
Taker, Southport White Globe
onions.
Bell, Ruby Giant, Red Cluster pep
pers.
Hollow Grown parsnips.
French Breakfast, Cardinal Globe,
Crimson Giant radish.
Long Season and Norfolk Savoy
spinach.
Mammoth Sandwich Island satisfy
or oyster plant.
Thorburn's Earliest, Sparks Ear
lima, early tomatoes.
Stone, Acme, Perfection and Enor-
nous, general crop or late tomatoes
Irish CObbler, Red Bliss and Early
Rose Irish potatoes.
The average farm garden should
be about one-half acre and should be
long and narrow If it is the inten-
ton to do any cultivating with the
horse ploW
A piece Of ground so by 270 feet
will be approximately one-half acre
and is the right shape. A garden Of
this size will give plenty Of room for
a few water melons, cantaloupes
Irish potatoes, etc.
If the late vegetables follow the
early ones two or more crops can be
grown on all Of the ground each
year. For this sized garden one
should purchase about one quart Of
snap beans, two ounces beets, three
packages cabbage, one package car
rots, half gallon corn, one ounce Gu
cumbers. one package egg plant, two
packages lettuce, two ounces onion,
one package parsnips, half gallon
garden peas, two packages peppers,
three pecks Irish potatoes, three
ounces radishes, one ounce spinach,
and three packages tomatoes.
wish specially to urge our peo-
pie TO grow more winter vegetables.
There is no reason in the world why
several kinds of vegetables could not
be had from the garden every month
In the year. Cabbage, collards, oys-
ter plant, Darsnips, kale, spinach,
ETC.. are vegetables that should be
found in the garden during the win
ter. l.. A. Niven,
Asst. In HORTICULTURE.
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