The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-05-03
Gardening in Barrels.

L was taking to an expert garden
er on the train this week and he
gave me some ideas about garden
ing in barrels and boxes which I
think will be helpful to city folks who
have little or no garden space. We
can raise potatoes, onions, tomatoes,
celery, egg plants, etc.. in boxes.
He says you can plant and grow
Irish and sweet potatoes in barrels
and make more than you can in your
garden.
His plan is simple, inexpensive,
reasonable and l believe it will work.
l saw a gentleman today who lives
on South Church street and he says
he grows Irish potatoes in barrels
and you can grow one and a half
bushels in -four barrel.
Plan for Irish and Sweet Potatoes.
Take a barrel and cut air holes
around the barrel about one to two
inches in diameter; put six or eight
inches rich dirt in the barrel and
plant the potatoes about four inches
apart until you have covered the en-
tire space in the bottom of the bar
rel.
When the plant gets up about four
inches put more dirt in the barrel.
Do not cover the bud AS the plant
continues to grow follow with dirt,
fertilizing in the meantime, until the
plant grows out of the top of the bar
rel. Potatoes require a lot of water
and you can water the plants as
needed.
The plants will finally grow out OIL
the top of the barrel and bloom and
be an ornament in your back yard.
Potatoes will form and make all the
way up the vine and fill the barrel.
Sweet potatoes can be grown in the
same way. l do not know whether
they will keep through the winter in
the barrels or not, but if they will we
could roll them under the house and
have our crop harvested with little
trouble and have potatoes banked for
the winter. This sounds good,
doesn't it?
: Cucumbea.s.
Take a cracker box, or any kind
of box, and fill it with rich dirt and
sink an ordinary flower pot in the
centre of the box. Cork up the hole
in the bottom of the pot. After the
in the bottom of the pot. Plant the
seed all around the pot. After the
plants are up and take root, fill the
pot with water and keep it full. The
water will seep through the pot and
supply moisture to the roots of the
plants and you will have cucumbers
all summer, and grow more than an
ordinary family will use.
+ Onions.
This man says you can grow more
onions in a wooden trough eight
inches deep and ten feet long than
you can from several rows in gar
den. Plant them close together and
use very rich dirt and you will be
surprised how many onions you can
grow.
Tomatoes, celery and eggplants can
be planted and grown in pots and
nail kegs and grown to perfection.
This plan appeals to me as l have
no garden spot, but can grow them
in my front and back yards. You can
easily cultivate and water your crop
and save expense OF plowing and dig
ging in your garden. The only tool
necessary is a small trowel or table
fork and you will have no grass to
contend with.
I am writing these suggestions as
the food situation is of vital impor-
tance to all of us, especially city
folk.
1t will certainly not cost much to
try out this plan. Next Saturday the
Hammond-Brown-Wall company will
give a demonstration at the store on
Gardening in Barrels and Boxes. y
These suggestions may be old, but
they are new to me. especially grow
ing Irish and sweet potatoes in bar
rels.
know the merchants of Spartan
burg will be glad to give all of their
empty barrels, kegs and small boxes
to encourage the movement of gar
dening in barrels and boxes. &C. P.
Hammond, in the Spartanburg
Herald.
Some estimates place the quantity
of timber that will be required by the