The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-02-19
(By w. F. MARTINI

The earliest corn l plant is the NAL
akoff sweet corn and a corn that was
sent to me from Port Chester, N. Y
l have tried the Golden Bantam and
while OF fine quality. we get too little
of it to afford the room for it. 1t
seems to do better in the North.
l follow the Malakoff corn with
Country Gentleman and Stonewell' s
Evergreen, making new paintings as
fast as the previous one is up until
August and then plant the last with
the Port Chester corn.
l SOW Eclipse and Egyptian beets
in late February, planting the seed by
hand as / never found a drill that
would SOW beet seed properly. drop
the seed two in place about four
inches apart so that the thinning is
easy. If the beets escape frost till
they produce their true leaves they
will stand a great deal of frost and the
only time they are apt to get killed
is Just as they terminate, consequent
ly do take some risk in order to get
them early.
In the frames l get beets soon aft
er the outdoor ones are planted The
frames are sown with alternate rows
of beets and early radishes six inches
apart and the radishes come out early
so that the beets have the Pinch
rows.
My tomato seeds are sown ten
weeks before it is safe to set them
out | sow in flats in the conserva-
tory and transplant as soon as large
enough to handle into other flats about
two inches apart.
From these flats in March they go
and are gradually hardened off so that
they can be set outside in April.
find that the earlier we get them out |
and they live the earlier the fruiting is. |
If frost threatens after they are |
started in the open ground l bend |
each plant over and shovel soil over |
it and have carried them through a |
temperature of 20 in that way.
l start sweet peppers in the same
way l start the tomatoes. l formerly |
used the Ruby King, but am now US
ing the Neapolitan. For hot pepper
sauce plant few Tobasco, but these
/ do not plant near the sweet peppers,
for l found one season that the pol
len from the Tobasco made the sweet
peppers hot
/ train tomatoes to single stems, ty-
ing them to stakes six feet tall and
out all side shoots. In this
way / plant them in three foot rows
and two feet between the plants You
cannot keep clean garden if the
tomato plants are allowed to tumble
On the ground, for after they have &C.
cupied the ground the grass and weeds
will take possession, while on stakes
We can keep the ground clean.
The earliest tomato l have tried
IS the Adirondack strain of Earliana.
3onny Best comes soon after, and for
The main crop | use Success and
Stone.
In April / SOW seed of the Norfolk
Queen onion very thickly to make sets. !
These are ripe in July and are cured
md replanted in September for green /
1
or use in late February. For the ripe /
rop of onions / plant sets of the Vel
ow Potato onion in the fall and use Z
ONE OF the offsets as green onions, 7
ut these are not good keepers and 8
SOW as early in the spring as the Y
oil can be worked seed of the South
ort Yellow and White Globe in rows I
6 inches apart. n
Then in January / SOW in a cold a
rame under glass seed of the Prize ii
aker onion which is the same as the d
parish onions imported under the I
anne of Denia onion. These are trans q
lanted to the open ground as soon b
J they are the size of goosequill. Il
hey make immense onions and very Il
lid ones. have had them weigh Z,
'er pound each, but these, too, are IL
IT good keepers and are used or dis Il