Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-04-03
SOME FINE HOME
GARDENING HINTS
Do not Give Children the Heaviest
Work to Do-vegetables for
Family Of Four.

| Family Of Four.
The U. S. department OF agricul-
ture sends out the following practi-
cal advice concerning the buying of
seed for vegetable gardens and also
some advice concerning how to in
terest children in doing garden
work:
Vegetable seed for planting should
be ordered SO as to be on hand as
soon as the weather and condition of
the soil make planting possible. Be-
fore ordering seed the home garden
er would do we'll to look over his gar
den plot, decide on the best location
for each vegetable and determine
how much seed he will require for
the space available for each variety.
He will find it helpful to make
rough plan of his garden on large
sheet of wrapping paper. On this
plan he can indicate the spaces to be
used for each variety and also by
means of colored pencils or symbols
show where a second crop is to be
planted or interplanted between
growing rows, and also arrange for
the second and third crops which are
to follow those previously harvested.
Such a plan will enable him to keep
the garden busy all season supplying
fresh vegetables during the summer
and producing in the late fall root
and other crops for winter use. Once
the heavy preliminary spading and
working of the garden has been done.
lit is about as easy to raise two or
three crops as to keep the garden
clean of weeds to produce only one
picking. The specialists advise those
who are not used to gardening or
wish to have their children take an
interest in the garden to hiress labor
er to do the hoayy preliminary spad-
ing or breaking up Of the soil This
heavy work frequently disSusts nov
ices and children who would take an
interest in the garden IL their task
was simply to fine and cultivate soil
ALREADY broken up.
The following amounts of seed the
garden specialists of the United
States department of agriculture say
are needed to plant approximately
100 feet of row. or enough to supply
vegetables for a family of four: ;:
Beans, snap, one pint; beans, pole
lima, one-half pint, bush lima, one
half pint to one pint; cabbage, early
lone-half ounce; carrot, one ounce;
|cauliflower, one packet; celery, one
packet: cucumber, one-half ounce:
(egg-plant, one packet; kale or Swiss
chard, one half ounce; parsley, one
packet; parsnips, cne-half ounce;
satisfy, one ounce; squash. summer.
Ione-half ounce; squash, Hubbard
type, one-half ounce.
The following vegetables, the spec
ialists say, will undoubtedly be plant
ed in larger amounts than those just
mentioned, and the amount of seed
will be guide for ordinary require
ments. Some families may need more
of the various vegetables and others
would need less:
Beet, four ounces: cabbage, late.
one-half ounce to one ounce; corn,
sweet, one ounce, onion sets. two
quarts; peas, garden, two to four
quarts; radish-, one to two ounces,
spinach, one-quarter pound in spring
and one half pound in fall; tomatoes,
late, one-quarter ounce: turnips, one
quarter pound; watermelons, one
ounce.
The string beans, bush lima beans.
sweet corn, lettuce, peas and rad
ishes will not all be planted at once.
but successive paintings two or three
weeks apart will be made so as to
ihave fresh supply throughout the
lseason.
OF early Irish potatoes one peck to
one-half bushel will be required and
of late potatoes one-half to one BUSH
lel, or more. depending upon the
amount of ground available for this
purpose. If possible, enough Irish
Throughout the winter.
In the event that the family wishes
to raise vegetables to supply current
needs and also to supply surplus
for canning, the amounts indicated
should be considerably increased.
| Miss Ethel Myers, who has been
assisting in the Miss Amanda John
son millinery store for a fortnight,
resumed her school teaching duties
today. Miss Myers will teach in a
school east Of Kamrar during the