Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-04-17
Farm and Garden
Timely Hints for Agriculturists--
Professional and Amateur

If you have started garden plants
indoors in seed boxes or pots you must
take great care in transplanting them,
says today's bulletin from the Ma
tional Food Garden Commission,
which Is cooperating with this pa
per in urging food garden planting to
cut the cost of living.
Transplanting Is @ crisis In the life
of q young plant, and weak ones Of
ten cannot stand 1t. Therefore select
the sturdier plants.
You must "harden off" indoor
plants before setting them In the
garden-that is gradually let them
get accustomed to the exposure. This
is done first by setting the seed boxes
and plants In open windows and re-
ducing the amount of water given to
them.
Gradually increasing the exposure,
after a few days you can leave the
plants. outdoors uncovered all day
and &-Suuss1sStie5l11 ~,
!, . ven oh nftiu 'Ii1g zrtT Then tIrc,
are ready for transpIanting. The
hardening process requires about two
weeks when the weather is still cool.
When the plants are growing in
pots, berry boxes or in the earthen
sides Of sods, the transplanting is
easy. From clay pots plant, roots
and soil will usually come out in a
single lump. This should be set In
the garden little deeper than the
seed was when planted. The bot
toms Of the berry boxes should be cut
off.
From the seed box transplanting
is harder If possible take the young
plants up with sufficient soil SO that
their roots are not exposed. If the
dirt shakes off, then you fust "pud-
die" the roote by dipping them into
thin mud. Do this Immediately SO
that the roots are not exposed to the
air on the way to the garden.
Work swiftly in the garden, setting
round stick. Press the soil just
enough to give the roots thorough
contact with the earth, allowing no
air spaces to remain under the sur
face.
A cloudy day or just before night
fall Is the best time for transplant
ing. Ordinarily 1t is not necessary
to water the freshly transplanted
seedlings.
Keep your garden at work, is the
advice from the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission cooperat-
ing with this paper in urging garden
planting this year. Don't let 1t loaf
q single day. When you harvest one
crop in the spring or early summer,
plant the space to some other which
will mature before frost comes in the
fall.
But, in addition to these successive
crops-that is, one following the
other-thet fact that certain plants
growers enables you to plant them
together and the earlier crop will be
out of the way before the later one
requires the room.
You may even in the case Of rad
ishes mix In the seeds with those of
other vegetables for row planting.
The radishes grow swiftly, quickly
marking the rows for hoeing, and
they ripen and are gathered before
thair neighbor plants attain large
growth. Radishes can be planted in
this way with onion, lettuce, carrot,
parsnip and beet.
Tomatoes, cabbages, peppers and
other large transplanted plants can
be grown as campanions to low, thick
plants like lettuce and onions. The
transplanted seedlings being set at
their proper intervals between the
rows of earlier maturing plants. Corn
and beans make good companions in
the same hills, and bean vines climb
ing the corn stalk for support
AS to successive crops, the follow
ing by George e. House, of Wheeling,
is recommended; the second named
as the second planting.
Early Corn---late string beans.
Early string beans-late cabbage
or corn.
Spring onions-late corn.
Early beets-late radishes.
Early carrots-fall spinach.
Early turnips-late lettuce.
Early radishes-late turnips.
Early lettuce-late carrots.
Early cabbage-fall spinach.
Early kale-fall spinach.