The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-06-01


hotbed, greenhouse or window garden
early In March, and If the plants are
properly hardened beforehand they
may be safely planted to the garden as
inches. Make second sowing as soon
as first plants are ready to set out,
likewise a third sowing when the sec
Ond lot Of plants are ready for setting
out, and so on until the season becomes
too far advanced and the weather too
warm for the lettuce to head
The round, smooth peas may be sown
as soon as the ground can be worked;
they will bear considerable cold with
out being injured, both before and aft
er they are up, but If there is no object
in having them come on very early it
would perhaps be better to delay plant
ing until the ground becomes some
what warm, when the early, midsea
son and late varieties may be sown the
same day. A pint Of seed will SOW
about thirty six feet Of row. After the
peas are cleared off the ground may be
planted to string beans. early sweet
corn, cabbage or celery.
OF carrots and beets make two SOW
ings, about two months apart. Musk
melons, cucumbers and early and late
sweet corn may be planted in the same
ground all on the same day. The hills
for melons and cucumbers should have
at least two shovelfuls of well rotted
stable manure mixed with the soil. In
the common method the rows are
three and one-half feet apart and the
hills of melons and cucumbers six feet
apart In the rows.
The tomatoes, pole limas, squash,
peppers and eggplant should be fertil-
lied in the hill with old well rotted sta
BILE manure One shovelful to each hill
Of lima beans will be sufficient, while
the tomatoes, etc., should have two
good shovelfuls to each hill. In all
cases mix with the soil.
The soil for lettuce, spinach, rad1shes,
carrots and beets should be well en-
riched with heavy applications Of well
rotted stable manure applied broadcast
and worked well into the soil.
If you got in sowing Of garden peas
early in March put in another at the
end Of the month. If you want to get
very early cabbage, caulihower and let
tuce plants into the ground by the LIST
of April remember to begin to harden
them off in the hotbeds by the middle
of March or perhaps ten days before
setting them out.
Do not uncover the strawberries too
early. Toward the end of March will
be time enough. Wait, in fact, until
they begin to grow.
Sod is excellent for tomatoes. Some
Of the largest crops have been grown
after sod. A handful Of fertilizer In
the hill starts growth, and the sod fur
nishes plant food for maturing the
crop. 1t Is best, though, to plow the
sod in early fall and leave the burrows
exposed to the action of frost and the
elements during the winter. In the
spring get on the ground early and har
row frequently until planting time.
onions on top Of the ground after plow-
ing. This Is then narrowed in with
disk harrow and thoroughly incorpo-
rated in the soil before onions are
planted.
Garlic is easy of culture and will sue
coed on any soil that is suitable for
onions. 1t IS grown or propagated by
dividing the bulbs, which are listed by
the seedsmen as cloves or sets and can
be procured from any Of the large seed
houses. They are planted as early In
spring as the ground is in condition for
| working in rows twelve to fifteen inch
es apart and from five to six inches
apart in the row.