The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-04-14
GARDEN
Making On A Side Hill That
Pays


four with fresh vegetables and fruit ali
summer. besides canning enough to
I last US throughout the winter. writes
Wisconsin contributor to the Pictor.
ial Review.
In space IL feet wide across the
entire lower side of the garden, so As
not to interfere with the annual plow.
ing, we have planted in lengthwise
rows the vines and plants that remain
for several years-grape and raspber.
vines, Strawberries, rhubarb, aspara-
gus and perennial onions with very
satisfactory results.
To prevent the best oil from being
washed away we have deep furrow
plowed above these when we have
the garden plowed, and another 10 feet
above this Along the upper side of
the garden we have foot deep ditch.
plant all the vegetables in rowsb par
allel with the furrows. We apply on
an average of eight loads of fertilizer
from the village COW barns per year,
which costs US only the price OF the
hauling.
TO guard against dryness we have the
ground plowed deep and narrowed un-
til the soil is in the finest possible con.
dition; we also practise level culture,
that is. we do not raise beds. cucum-
Der hills, etc, above the lever surface.
J plant all the seeds little deeper
than ] would in a level country I
Keep the soil mellow and free from
weeds by going over the garden every
few days with steel garden rake or
g six-tined potato hook, the tines of
which / have had ground to sharp
Toint. draw the potato hook along
between the rows of vegetables. The
potato hook is the best implement /
lave ever seen for pulverizing soil for
beds. plant the garden as early as
the ground can possibly be worked IN
the spring. From earliest spring until
frost in the fall every foot of our gar
den is occupied by growing vegetables.
AS soon as one crop is removed-in
many cases before-I plant another
crop. Thus always grow lettuce and
radishes between rows of peas, beans,
corn, potatoes. Early cabbage and
leans are grown between cucumbers
and melons
think the secret of my success in
gardening lies in the fact that. with
few exceptions, raise only early va
rieties of vegetables, BY doing this
l can raise two or more crops where,
by planting late varieties. / could raise
only one.
now plant exclusively the follow
ing varieties, which have proved 10 be
most satisfactory both in sarliness and
quality in my garden.
Beans-Stringless green pod, black
valentine, improved golden wax Car
rots-Early scarlet horn, chantenay.
Beets-Crosby' Egyptian, eclipse. Cab
hage-Early Jersey Wakefield. Gu
cumbers-Davis perfect Nichols med
iGm green. Corn-Cory, golden ban.
tam. Lettuce-Grand Rapids, early
prize head. Peas-Notts excelsior,
Alaska. Radishes-Early bird, early
scarlet globe, round white tip scarlet.
Muskmelon-Barly HRckensack Os-
age gem. Watermelon-Ford ear
ly, peerless, Tomatoes-Earlies of all,
earliana; later, Stone. Turnip-Early
white fiat ditch Potato-Early rose.
plant Southport white glove and red
glove onions. However l depend on
bottom sets for my early onions But
the earliest of all are the perennials,
which remain in the ground all winter
and are ready to use after the first
few warm days in the spring, before
sets can be even planted. Being the
FIRST green things in the spring, and as
| am the only one here who grows
them. they sell rapidly They are
wonderfully prolific l have often sold
$40 worth from one row 20 feet long.
lou can readily see the profit from
this small space.
grow the Warfeld and Senator
Dunlap strawberries, | have grown
200 quarts on bed 10 by 80 feet.
To market the vegetables, clean
them thoroughly and make them into
attractive punches. Beans aad peas
put into quarter paper sacks; corn,
tomotoes and cucumbers | sell by the
dozen, melons by the piece. take
much pains to make everything look
as clean and inviting as possible. l
place the different kinds of vegetables
into two baskets, and every morning
boy, whom ! pay one cent for every
five cents worth he sells, takes them
around town. | also leave some at the
meat markets, ALLOWING them the same
commission that | do the boy.
AS my husband has other work dur
ing the summer months ! do all the
garden work myself and really enjoy