The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
PLANT! PLANT! PLANT
By Hapsburg Liebe of The vigilantes.

There are few families in our ayerag
cities who can't swat the kaiser thi
coming spring and summer with vege
table garden of greater or lesser proper
tons, Nothing is more interesting L
the normal every day man than thit
delving in the ground in his spare time
and there are few things that contrib
ute more TO lower the cost of living Il
this reaches your eye before it is tim.
to begin your garden, cut it out and save
it. 1t comes through me from one of the
best vegetable growers | know,
Have your ground broken deep. Don't
plant, If you can help yourself, the same
crop in the same place you had it last
year Where you had potatoes last year
for instance, plant beans this year. Shift
them around.
Plant early in spite of your fear of
the frost. If frost gets your early plant
ing plant again and Immediately after
ward. Old newspapers, weighed down
on each side with handful of earth,
will protect from frost unless there is a
strong wind. Do not LET the paper touch
the plant.
Put garden peas in double rows about
fifteen inches apart. Chick wire three
or four feet high, staked at each end
and in the middle of the average row,
will serve many years as a trellis for
peas Stakes and Irvine or brush will
serve the same purpose, but are not so
good in the long run as the wire. As
this trellising impedes hoeing, do it only
when the height of the peas makes it
necessary. Frost does not hurt peas. Get
them out early.
Put Irish potatoes in drills about four
or five inches deep. Put one eye every
eight inches, and replant, where they
fail to come up. In hoeing, do not cut
the roots, and do not draw earth too
high on the plant after it has good
start, as this causes a second crop of po-
tatoes TO start growing, which win set
back the bigger ones. Use solution
of Paris Green for potato beetles. In
dry seasons, prying up the middles with
a spading fork, without turning the
earth any whatever, and then watering
with a hose, has an almost miraculous
effect.
Plant sweet corn at different times,
which will give you green corn until
frost. All vegetables grow better on
the east side of corn than on the west.
for then the vegetables get the morning
sun. Two hours of morning sun are
better for all vegetable growth than a
whole afternoon of it.
Tomatoes need not have sticks, but 1
he fruit should be kept off the ground /
with straw, or even old newspapers, as /
contact with the ground causes rotting. 4
4 crop of late tomatoes win usually (
yrow where You pulled up the vines Of I
Tour bunch beans or your peas. Keep |
he ground full
Both potatoes and corn are hard on |
he land. But if the land Is sufficiently 4
ich it will produce both corn and po- 1
stoes in one year. Plant the potatoes 1
arly and plant the corn between the
ows as soon As can be done with due
for the hoeing III
Don't let a crust form around your
.oung sweet potato plants. When the
rst autumn frost falls on the vines, cut
hem OF under the ground before the
unlight gets them. You can then dig
he potatoes almost az your leisure.
weet potatoes are hard to keep into
be winter. Don't bruise them and keep
hem spread in an even temperature. else
ury them in sand in an even tempera
1re
4 dust mulch around plants j. good in
cry dry weather Watering Is better.
o. ever. but Il should ~ done onlv n
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