French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-19
O GARDEN HINTS.
How Much Vegetable Seed, to Plan
FOR a Family OF FOur-Plan Garden
Before Planting Time.

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Vegetable seed for planting should
be ordered at once, so as to be on
hand as hand as 500 a the weather
and condition of the soil make plant
ing possible. Before ordering seed
the home gardner would do we'll to
look over his garden plot decide on
the location for each vegetable, and de-
termine how much seed he will require
for the space available for each
variety.
He will find it helpful to make a
rough plan of his garden on a largo
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 grow
Ing rows and also 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 veget-
ables during the summer and >produc~
ing in the late fall root and other crops
for winter use. Once the heavy pre-
liminary spading and working of h
garden has been done it is about as
easy to raise two or three crops Is to
keep the garden clean of weeds to
produce only one picking. The speci-
ialists advice those who are used to
gardening or wish to have their chill
dren take an interest in the garden to
hire a laborer to do the heavy prelim-
mary spading or breaking up of the
soil. This heavy work frequently dis
gusts novices and children who would
continue to take an interest in the
Carden.if their task was simply to fine
and cultivate soil already broken UP.
Seed for a Family of Four.
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, 1 pint; Beans, pole
Lima IL pint; Beans, bush Liba, IL
to 1 pint; Cabbage, early IL ounce;
Carrot, 1 ounce; CauIifiower, 1 pack
ct; Celery, 1 packet; Cucumber IL
ounce; Eggplant, 1 packet; Kale, or
Swiss chard, IL ounce; Parsley, 1
packet; Parsnips, IL ounce; Satisfy,
a ounce; Squash, summer, IL ounce;
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The following vegetables, the spec
ialists say, will undoubtedly be plant
ed in larger amounts than those just
mentioned, and the amounts of seed
given will be a guide for ordinary re-
Quirement1. Some families may need
more. of the various vegetables and
others would need less: p
Beet 4 ounce; Cabbage, late ~ to 1
4 RI1nRns NOTn CUTnOf 4 MINT . .nffTROn 7
ounce; Muskmelon, / ounce; Onion
sets, 2 quarts; Peas, garden. 2jto A
quarts; Radish, I I'd q ounces; Spin
ach: In spring IA pound; I'm fan IL
pound; Tomatoes, late, LA ounce; Tur-
nips, IA pound; Watermelon, I ounce;
The string beans, bush Lima beans,
sweet corn, lettuce, peas, and radishes
will not all be planted at one time, but
1 apart will be made so as to "have q
fresh supply throughout the season.
OF early Irish potatoes I peck to IL
busheF will be required, and OF late po-
tatoeg IL to /. bushel, or more, depend
ing upon the amount of ground availa.
BILE for this purpose. IF possible
enough Irish potatoes should be grown
to last throughout the winter.
In the event that the family wishes
to raise vegetables to supply current
kneeds an dalsO to supply surplus FOL
canning, the, amounts indicated above
heuld be1consfderably Increased.
The home gardener should find use
full Farmers Bulletin 225, Home Veget
able Garden, and Farmers Bulletil
i CAT, Home Garden in the South. 1h,
latter is designed particularly for US,
in the farmer climates, but contain
many suggestions that can readily b.
adapted by home gardeners in tn
North. The Department of Agricul
turs will supply these bulletins FIRE
on application as long as its stock TO
free distribution lasts.-U. S. Dep