The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-21
South Good
For Fall
Vegetables
many Things Can Be Planted at This
Season-No Need to Wait for
Spring

nave been gathered or are now near |,
Ing maturity need not reconcile them.
selves to the existence Of bare or un.
productive land from now until next |
spring. according to garden specialists !
OF the department. They may plant |
seeds from now until October or No !,
vember and should, as a result, have ),
1all, winter, and spring vegetables.
The successful fall garden is a posi-.
bility with nearly all vegetables grown
in spring and summer, except in areas
OF high altitude and in the more north. !
erly portions Of the region.
In many sections of the south, to- '
'mato plants have succumbed to the
strain of high temperatures and dry
ness. In some localities they will live
and continue to bear until fall but in
others they will not survive. A new
crop should be planted now, and it
may be profitable to try the expert !
ment of planting both in the open
ground where the plants are to re-
main and in frames for TRANSFORMING.
The frames or beds should be located
in relatively cool, shady place. The
same plan of field and frame planting
may be used for cabbage seedlings.
With this crop, promising results have
already been obtained by planting sew
eral seeds in hill and thinning to one
plant. If the field planting should not
survive, however, in some instances,
: the grower, it is pointed out, is pro-
tected by having on hand the france
grown plants. Ordinarily the seed
planted direct to the field will pro-
huce the earlier crop.
Among the vegetables which may be
planted at practically any time during
the summer, with fair assurance of
success, are beans. Bush squash may
also be planted even in the hottest
: weather if they have not been made
part of the garden at an earlier sea-
son. With the beginning Of August
practically the entire list of ordinary
!. vegetables is open to the fall gard
ener for choice, beets, parsnips, car.
! rots celery sweet corn, radishes, let
tuce and peas may be planted at this
time, many of them in succession
= crops at frequent intervals. Later in
= the month and during the early part
of September, kale. spinach, mustard,
ulrnips, collards and parsley may also
. be planted. During September onion
. sets should be put out, and in October,
and ever later, onion seeds may be
u planted for spring crop.
+" Among the crops of these late plant
ings which the southern gardener will
= find available for winter use are beets
;" and the other root crops, such as pars-
nips and carrots, and kale, collards,
;. spinach and mustard Many of the
II plants, he will find, may be carried by
N slight protection even into quite cold
weather without suffering damage. To
= the crops which will be carried over
II. for development in the early spring
should be added satisfy, or oyster
plant, which may be planted practical
;. ~ any time during the late summer OF
4. early fall
20 The following specific directions for
m fall planting of certain seeds in the
II south have been prepared by the de
"a partment's pant specialists:
% Beets-Beets planted in the south
Il in August and early September will
ii produce crop for late fall and early
- winter use. Where hand cultivation
is to be given, SOW the seed in drills
fourteen to eighteen inches apart and
a, cover to the depth of about one inch
g. For horse cultivation the rows should
ar be two and one-half feet apart. As
of soon as the plants are well estab
. Hshed. thin them to a stand two tC
20 three inches apart Give frequent
~ shallow cultivation. The beets may
W be left in the ground through the win
70 ter, to be pulled when wanted.
70 Varieties recommended: Crosby''
% egyptian. Bassano, Early Eclipse ant
hit Blood Turnip.
Turnip-Turnip seed may be sow
during the latter part of August ant
g throughout September and the frs
ID half of October. Sow turnip sect
IN thickly in rows Is to Is inches apart
~. and when the plants reach heigh
". of or 5 inches begin thinning, usin'
i. the young plants for greens. 70
It. good roots thin the plants to about
At. inches apart in the row Keep tn
in land well cultivated to keep down tn
or weeds and to leave the surface zoos
8. and friable. In small garden cuiu
90 vation with hand cultivator is tn
NO most practicable. Turnips may D
in left in the ground until needed for IN
:, table or many be pulled as soon a