Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-01-19

TO disappear entirely.
planted my tomatoes early in tin
cans before transplanting them in the
garden. l had some real healthy
plants, but had frost so late in the
spring that they were really not
success, yet had lots Of green ones
but not many ripened. Have dug my
potatoes, carrots and onions. I have
another mess of peas and beans and
if the weather permits l will have
more peas and beans. l have sold
garden products amounting to ten dol
lars and then we have enough for our
HANS P. HANSEN,
Eighth Grade.
NOTE%Hans had large garden
and grew a greater variety Of crops
than were required by the rules but
his work and results we're judged by
a part of the whole garden.
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A Girls Report.
The first thing 1 did in my garden,
planning and hard work, had mark
by twenty feet, with a path around it
about foot wide. After the ground
had been well fortified and plowed,
went over it carefully with a rake,
getting the soil smooth and free from
Jumps.
planted my radishes, which were
my earliest crop, as soon as the frost
was out of the ground, which was the
fifteenth of April. They came up
within a week after being planted, and
were the right size to use the twenty
ninth of May. On June 3rd, planted
my second crop of radishes. I sold
twenty-five cents worth of these. The
others were used at home. I planted
my third crop Of radishes about July
3rd, in the place where my first crop
had been. These were all used at
home. My radishes proved to be a
good crop.
My first crop Of onions was planted
April nineteenth. While they were
green, sold thirty-five cents worth
of them at one of the stores in town.
planted both seed and set onions.
| When they were ripe, there were
about two pecks of them. These were
worth fifty cents. l think onions are
a very good crop to raise. for they al
! ways seem to be in demand.
planted my carrots April 10Th.
! They grew we'll, and raised three
pecks, which were worth seventy-five
| cents. do not think that carrots are
a very paying crop.
| NY lettuce was planted about May
18TH 1t grew well, altho it proved to
be not a very paying crop.
| l planted my beans May 18th also
I sold fifty cents worth of string beans
at a store in town. When they dried
there was a pint of them. Beans are
a good crop.
NV potatoes, being planted April
18th, we're in blossom June 26th, and
ready for use July 10th. raised
about a bushel Of them.
planted several hills Of cucumbers
but the ground being too wet, the seeG
rotted, so l planted my successive
crops in place of them. One vine
however, grew and bore we'll, for
got several ripe cucumbers from it
and enough small ones to can abou
quart of pickles.
After my second crop Of radishe:
was gone, I planted beets In place o
them. They grew to good size to-
picking and l picked five quarts o
them.
When my lettuce was all used up,
planted rutabagas in place of it. The!
did not do very well, the weather be
ing so cold and wet.
have gotten quite bit of pleasur
from my garden, and have learne'
much about gardening. know nov
that it is best to hoe out the weed
before they get ahead of me; that
is useless to plant seeds too thick TO
! this ia a waste of time and money, TO
the plants must be turned out an
wav: and that it is not a good plan t
leave the hoeing until the sun ha
baked a crust over the top, for thi
J let's out the moisture.
LULU FALKINGHAM.
Ninth Grade.