The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-03-20
PREPARE FOR war GARDEN
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lead pencil on the stakes what Is
planted and date of planting.
Do not plant the seed too thick, for
\ it is almost treason right now to 40
SO. Garden seed is expensive and
scarce and too many plants are as
bad as weeds. If you want beets for
greens BLESSINGS on the man who in
vented beet greens) plant them a lit
tie thicker and thus thin out the plants
when gathering the beets for greens.
Right here want to digress trifie.
Be sure to can small beets for fall
and winter USE Don't wait until they
have become as large and heavy as
some dumplings l have met. but gath
er them when small and tender, and
great will be thy reward.
Get after the weeds early in the
game, when they are small. Don't
wait until they have become large
enough to pull, but cut them down in
the days of their youth. Small weeds
are easy to kill with the hoe or rake.
Gather the weeds and grass from the
ground, for many times. if left on the
ground they will take root and this
may put damper on the early gar
dening enthusiasm you had earlier in
the spring. While the hot sun will
assist in killing the weeds you have
cut off with the spade the hot sun
sometimes also melts that early
springtime pep" you started off with.
Get up about five o'clock in the morn.
ing, arm yourself with that sharp
hoe. and WELD it with careless joy
While dashing off the dew. If. per.
chance, your neighbor sleepeth,
whistle some rag time melody while
you work This is almost as effective
is lots of fun right out in the garden.
il YOU will only get on the job early.
Never let the surface get hard any
where. Even if there are no weeds,
hoe or rake often enough to keep the
surface loose.
Eternal vigilance is the price of sue.
cess, if you want TO eXterminate the
insects. Cabbage worms don't seem
to do we'll II you dust the plants with
a mixture of one part paris green to
twenty parts -four. Potato bugs
should be given shower bath of
paris green. In small garden it
is possible TO walk through the pc.
tato patch and knock off the bugs in
to pail. Be sure to destroy the bugs
gathered or they will soon be back
on the job. The bug pest has caused
much trouble and taken the joy out
of cucumber raising. Make box
like frame about four or five inches
high and cover it with mosquito net
ting and place this over the hills.
Lead of arsenate--One ounce to one
quart of water-is not good for the
fstriped cucumber beetles. for they
soon become Respondent and turn up
their toes to the daisies.
The tomato is some vegetable
and should have place in every gar.
den. Get a fairly rich, sandy piece OF
Nsround, if possible, to plant them in.
Don't plant them too close together,
about three feet apart, prefer, and,
NY all means us some sort Of rack
lSszesaa,sslia each plant to keep the vines
OFF the ground. Stalking, or a rack
system, hastens ripening little and
saves some rotting by keeping the
fruit off the ground.
I like to set out tomato plants dur
ing the evening or some cloudy day
and place shield made Of old shin.
giles around them for three or four
days, to protect them from the hot
sun.
/ have pruned tomato vines and
will do so again. While the plants arc
small, pinch off the branches and keep
to single stem. After two or three
clusters of fruit have set, pinch off
the top. 1t let's the sunlight get to
r,,,;t I, ha rinnn,
ing of the fruit.
Last season | ate fresh tomatoes
the latter part of October. How did
! do It? Listen: Green tomatoes were
gathered from the vines just before
the killing frost and the fruit wiped
dry with clean cloth and the fruit
placed in q cool dry place. As wanted
the tomatoes were placed in the win
dows, where they would be exposed
to the sun, and ripened. Say. boy,
but they did taste good!
am going to reprint some good adj
vice on potato and bean growing,
which originated at the Ames Agri'
cultural college.
The potato is the most important
and useful of all vegetables. Potatoes
like open. airy soil, but it must be
loamy enough so as not to dry out
too much in the summer time. Don't
try to grow potatoes on heavy soil.
Good drainage of land is necessary.
For first early. plant Bliss Triumph
or Norton Beauty: for main early crop
plant Early Ohios; for late, plant Rur-
Sfs. It will take one and one-half to
two bushels of seed for an eighth of
an acre. Smooth, rather short. slight
ly fiat seed potatoes are best. and
three to eight ounces is the best range
CT size. Scab is the scars made on
potato skins by the healing of
wounds made by tiny germs or by
some small insects. If the seed is
scabby. it is well to treat by soaking
the potatoes before cutting for two
hours in water between 60 and so de-
grees F., which contains either four
ounces Of corrosive sublimate or one
pound of formaline to each thirty gal
Ions of water. The corrosive subli-
mate and the water and potatoes soak:
ed in it are deadly poison-be care
full! The formaldehyde gas is also
poisonous, but the gas will evapOrate