The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-28
FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and Pub
Monday, May %, 1917.
MORE GARDEN NOTES

Don't water your garden. Cultiva
ton is what is needed to keep off
drouth. After every rain the surface
of the soil should be stirred by a
wheel-hoe. cutivator or ordinary hoe
This breaks up the surface of the
soil and forms a mulch on top which
lesses radiation. In this way the
soil underneath remains moist. When
transplanting use water freely and
that is the only time to use water in
garden in this part of the country.
Flower beds because of location and
difficulty of cultivation often require
watering ~ A
When food is scarce and prices
high turnips, carrots and parsnips are
good vegetables to raise They are
easily grown and can be kept all win
ter with little care. Germany would
have been starved out this year, If it
hadn't been for great crop of turnips
last fall which was used to exc out
the poor crop of potatoes. In growing
these vegetables, about the only thing
TO guard against is having the plants
too thick. unles they have room the
roots will not grow and mature.
Cucumbers should be grown in
rows eight feet apart. Plant rather
thickly and thin the plants to about
a foot apart The land should be
highly fortified with we'll rotted
manure, when the plants begin to
run spray them once week for four
or five weeks with Bordeaux mixture
to keep off blight. Spinach and rad
ishes can be grown alongside the row
of cucumbers as they will be gone by
before the cucumber vines want the
space
Caulifower is a good spring or fall
crop, but does not do very we'll in
midsummer. Sow the seed about
June 10 and transplant around July
20 to where your early string beans
were grown. If the soil is fairly rich
the plants will head in September
when caulifiower is best Light frosts
will not spoil or injure caulifower
If the family is fond of radishes
they should be planted once in two
waalc until tlo ,,,;id1o of A,,e,,ct T.,
is always possible to find a little clear
space in the garden to put in a short
should be pulled out or they will run
to seed and shade other crops. There
are many good varieties of radish but
perhaps the best for successive plant
ings is the French Breakfast radish.
1t is ready to eat "a to 80 days from
planting. If the seed can be secured
along about the middle of July put in
a few Rose China winter radishes.
They will grow bigger than the larg.
est size of parsnips but are tender and
fine favored and can be kept until
Christmas
While Lima beans are hard to grow
successfully at first they are such a
choice addition to the table that it is
well to keep trying Pole Limas are
surer than the Bush Limas and pro
duce much larger crop. Try a few
hills the first year and learn by ex-
perience. The Pole Limas should be
in hills three and one.half feet apart
and four good plants to the hill are
enough. Never touch or work around
beans when they are wet or even
slightly damp from dew.
If you have bed of asparagus keep
the weeds and grass out and manure
it every year during the growing sea-
son and again in the fall after the
growth has ceased. If the asparagus
bed is properly fortified you can cut
asparagus in this neighborhood until
the first of July.
Look out for cut-worms. If you
find plants eaten off right at the sur
face Of the ground it is sure to be
the work of a cut-worm Take small |
pointed stick and dig around the sur
face of the ground and you are pretty |
sure to find Mr. Cut.work resting af- |
ter his meal