Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-09
Your War Garden

Most Of the vegetables that should
be planted early in the spring winch
mature in few weeks may also De
planted again late in the summer or
early in the fall for fresh vegetables
at that season. Frost may get some
Of them, but the chances favor sue.
cess, for most are not seriously Injured
by anything but very heavy freezing.
Here is a list of vegetables that Gun
be planted in late August or early
September, and most Of them will ma
ture before killing freezes come. RAD
ishes, lettuce, turnips, (the latter may
also be planted in July); parsley, spin
ach, kale, multiplier onions, and beets'
the latter for green's.
There are few vegetables that re-
paw the gardener so much for his la
Dor or return so much in food for the
ground occupied, as do beets. the
| first planting should be in the ground
! now, and a succession OF paintings
continued until late in the summer or
early fall will furnish young tender
roots for fresh vegetables, or for can
ming and tops for both fresh greens
and for canning. The culture is quite
simple. The seed should be sown IN
drills about three-quarters OF an men
deep and the rows ore and one-hair
feet apart. The seed Is in reality .
pod, which contains several seeds.
That is the reason that the young
plants come up so thickly and must
be thinned out, as each pod contains
three to five seeds. When the young
plants are a. few inches high they
should be thinned to stand three or
four inches apart in the rows, II they
are to be pulled before they entirely
mature, or six inches apart II 1t IS
desired to grow them to their full
size. The ground should be frequently
cultivated and the weeds kept from
| smothering the plants while they are
young.
The venturesome gardener may now
be warranted in planting some sweet
corn for roasting ears, il he wants
to have the new corn for his table IN
July, when it will be worth 30 or ~
cents a dozen at the store. The sea-
son is not far enough advanced to
warrant planting now large quantity
of seed but the gardener is justified
in planting some. If the seed is killed
there will be still plenty Of time to
L.. "A
sweet corn, at intervals OF from ten
days to two weeks, if extended thru
four or five paintings, will give roast
ing ears for whole month or longer.
For the home table there is no other
variety that compares with Golden
Bantam. Ten or fifteen years ago this
variety OF sweet corn, which produces
small golden ear, was something OF
a novelty. Now it is grown every
where that corn is grown. but the sup
ply produced BY market gardeners
never has fully kept up with the de-
mand in this city.
It may be grown in either hills or
drills If in hills planted at this time
of year five kernels may be placed III
hill to insure the maximum stand.
After the plants are up pull up all
in excess of three For hand cultiva-
ton both ways the hills and rows may
be two and one-half feet apart. II
planted in drills place the kernels
about eighteen inches apart and the
rows two and one-haif feet apart.
Sweet corn produces shoots or suckers
from the sides of the main stalk just
above the ground. These should be
broken off as they tend to sap the
strength of the stalk and produce
| nothing. Cultivate thoroughly and
frequently and until the corn Is IN
silk, and then to prevent the ground
| from becoming weed infested go thru
the patch late in the summer and pun
out weeds before they go to seed.