The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-07-31
ALL SUMMER GARDEN.

There Should b a Succession Of Crops
Through tho aGrowingS Season. XII
The way to have AIN, abundance of
the best OF good things from thesgar-
den Is to grow a succession of crops
through the growing season, says "a
contributor to Farm Progress. In the
average farm home garden great ef
fort is made early in spring to have
all the soil prepared and planted, but
later in the season the crops are neg
lected and large portion Of the gar
den Is allowed to4Hes idle and grow up
to weeds. The best gardeners keep all
of their rich soil working to its limit
from early spring till late fall. As
soon as one crop natures and is re-
moved another is quickly planted to-
take its place. /.
It is simply wonderful what COM.
mon farm garden Of rich soil will grow
in one season if all Of the soil is kept
busy all the time. Where all the space.
is run to cultivated crops through the.
growing season the garden is an at
tractive place, and no part of it be-
comes hard and baked in dry weather
as where. patches are neglected after
the first short crops have been har
vested. s~. =
1t. is. easily possible to grow three Or
four good crops in the garden from the
same space In one season through
planting a succession of crops. From
spaces where early lettuce, radishes,
peas and such early quick maturing
crops have grown other quick or stand,
ard maturing crops may follow imme-
diately as soon as they have been re-
moved. Beans, carrots, beets, sweet
corn, cucumbers and others, for exam
pie, may follow lettuce, radishes and
peas. Bunch beans may follow bunch
beans in the same ground for at least
three crops during the year.
In many cases, as with early, bunch
beans, ssweetecorn may be planted be-
tween the rows to be up and ready for
cultivation, as soon as the early crop Of
beans is out Of the way. The soil is
working all of the time, and other
planting between rows may be done
with variety of crops. Tomatoes are
often started between sweet cornrows
to be ready for blossoming and fruit
ing as, soon as the sweet corn is ready
to eat, when the stalks are removed to
let in light, to the tomato vines.
By keeping all the garden space STIR
red and fresh FOE seeding it is posi-
BILE to make a. succession Of paintings
Of several good crops to have them for
use for a long season. By planting
sweet corn, for example, early In the
spring and then couple Of short rows
aboutgeyey two weeks till the middle
Of summer 1t is possible to have sweet
corn for table use for several months
during the summer and fall. Sweet
corn may be planted at intervals from
April to- the last of, July and bunch
beans during the same time Radishes
may be sown and coming on for use
in a fresh state from March till the
LIST of September in central ATTITUDES.
It is impossible here to enumerate
all Of the good things that can be. had
fresh from the garden during the mid.
die of the summer and through the
fall months by keeping all the vacant
spaces seeded and through seeding or
setting out plants between rows Of
crops that will soon be out of the way
The good garden is the one that Is full
OF spring, midsummer and fall crops
growing and ripenipg continually In
abundance. -