Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-18
WHAT YOU CAN GROW
If You Start Now and Push Planting
and Cultivation.

IT You Start Now and Push Planting
and Cultivation.
By f. F. Rockwell, author of
"Around the Year in the Garden. "
"Home Vegetable Gardening" etc.
Copyright 1917 by W. Atlee Burpee 4
Co.. seed growers, Philadelphia.
1t is not yet too late to grow good
supply of vegetables, even If you have
not had garden SO far this year.
There is aomng amateur gardeners
an unwritten tradition that gardens
must be planted in the spring. AS a
matter of fact fairly complete garden
may be planted successfully as late as
the middle of July. There are approx
imately 100 days of growing weather
after that date, while the majority of
vegetables require less than 80 days to
be ready for use.
1t is fact that Nature does most of
her seed-sowlng, not in the spring, but
during the summer and early fall. One
of the chief reasons why summer
planting is not carried on more extern
svely is that, in many sections OF the
country, we usually have at that time
a dry condition of the sell that delays
or interferes with termination.
WHAT YOU CAN PLANT NOW.
The list of vegetable which can still
be grown this year is big enough to
satisfy any beginner. 1t includes:
Beans Beets
Cabbage Caulif1ower
Brussels Sprouts Celery
Sweet Corn Lettuce
Mustard Peas
Radsh Ruta-Bagas
Spinach Summer Squash
Turnips
OF the above vegetables, cabbage.
caulifower, brussels sprouts. and Gel
rev, may be obtained locally in plapts
already started. If you can get the
plants, there is still plenty of time for
tomatoes. They will be in their priue
during September and early October,
when the local crop IS pretty we'll gone
by, and both ripe and green tomatoes
for making pickles and preserves, are
hard to get.
The other vegetables IN the list
above, should he started now from
seed. There is one point about which |
care should be taken, however, That
IS: FOR LATE PLANTING USE
EARLY VARIETIES.
This advice may seem paradoxical at |
first, but will appear commonsense on
a moments reflection.
THE THINGS TO HURRY WITH.
While all the things mentioned above
will have time to develop to good table
size. there are some which cake longer
than others, and those should include
beets, carrots, sweet corn, ruta-bagas
and cucumbers. With all of them it is
essential to use only the earliest varie-
ties, as suggested above.
GETTING A STRONG START.
Success with these late planted veg
etables, depends to large extent on
getting a strong termination aid quick
start IN growth. To make as sure as
possible of this, there are three points
to be kept in mind:
Plant on freshly prepared surface
Firm the seed we'll in the soil, if the
latter IS at all dry.
Provide a fertilizer high IN available
nitrogen to assure robust early growth.
FIRM SEED WELL IN THE SOIL.
A frequent cause of failure. or of
poor results with late paintings, when
the soil ls usually not as moist as 1t Is
in the spring, is neglect to pack the
soil about the newly planted seed firm
ly enough.
After opening the drill or furrow,
and distributing the seed, 60 over the
row with the back of the hoe or rake
or, in case of large seeds, such as peas, ;
beans, or corn, with the ball of the
foot, and press the seed down into
the soil. Then cover Immediately I
while the dirt is still fresh and moist, J.,
to the depth required tor the kind Of
iced being sown.
After covering the seed, again press
the soil down lightly on the surface, {
to prevent air spaces and to mark
where the row or hill has been planted.
in heavy clay soil or very wet wealth
,r. of course, little or no compactlng
# the soil over the seeds will be re-
Iuired. c
The details of planting root crops for =
winter use will be given in the next j..
lrticle, which will appear in our issue 2
II July rs. 1.i
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