The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-05-09
The VEGETABLE GARDEN

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most no work on the farm pays as
we'll in comfort and health and
shekels saved if not in shekels gained
as work in the garden and with the
small fruit raised for home consump-
ton.
And here is where the women of
the home can co operate. There
is not only gain in their garden work
for the family supplies but there is
health for themselves. Work in
the open air for one hour or so a
day will prove one of the best of
tonics and will give a zest to the
days work and joy in living that
fails to come to the many farmers
wives who find or think they find
their homework so pressing that
there is no time for health giving
work in the open.
Ii any housewife is so weighed
down by the cares of the family and
the indoor work of the home that
she cannot get out for an hour a
day, she certainly needs to have her
work lightened by the needed help,
or the time will come all too soon
when there will be break and out
ragged nature will force a prolonged
cessation of labor if not rest.
Let the men prepare the ground
and do the heavier work. The seed
ing, wedding and gathering the crop
will be the Joy of the women.
Our own garden has already given
us this spring what would have cost
the city dweller dollars to procure,
and when he had spent his good
money for it, often times he has
only wilted lot that he would not
think of eating.
Asparagus, rhubarb, lettuce and
onions are on now and peas, beans.
radishes, turnips, beets, potatoes
and seed onions are up. Carrots.
parsnips, parsley, cucumbers and to-
matoes are planted and sweet corn,
melons, pumpkins, squashes, cab
bage, caulifower and other more
delicate plants will get into the
ground soon, now that danger of a
frost is practically over.
If space is limited, two crops can
be put on the same ground. Cab
bage and caulifower can replace the
early vegetables; melons, sqashes,
etc., may be made to follow the
early potatoes.
Several sowings of many of these
vegetables will be necessary if the
supply is to be kept up all summer.
We do not care for more than two
sowings of radishes, but lettuce and
peas may be had and are good all
summer. Of many vegetables an
early and late variety should be
sown, the latter for late fall or win
ter use.
No one should be scared by the
length of the above list. A good
garden may be had on a small city
lot if the land is utilized as it may
be. I was wonderfully pleased last
summer at the sight of what was
done on a lot of our own little city.
A lawn as neat as could be in front
and at the side of the house and at
the rear the tiniest garden, all in
perfect order and as thrifty as could
be. 1t did ones heart good to see
such an example of what all might
do if they only would. What a
city beautiful we would have and
how much money would be saved
and how much better our tables
would be served and how much
happier and more beautiful we
would be if all worked in the gar
den intelligently and faithfully as
! much as they could.
Uncle Sam has an excellent little
publication, Farmers Bulletin No.
255 entitled 1.-THE Home Vegetable
Garden" 1t is to be had for the
asking. Write to Department of
Agriculture or your congressman
and while you are about it get
Farmers Bulletin No. 154, THE
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