The Redwood gazette., 1918-03-27
A. +. Carr Talks
War Gardens
BELIEVES EVERY SMALL PLOT
CAN BE MADE TO PRODUCE
$50 OF VEGETABLES

A. F. Carr was particularly sue
cessful last year in growing large
quantity of vegetables on a small
space of ground. At the request of
the editor Mr.. Carr has written, for
the benefit of other amateur garden
erS. something of his experience.
lrFl have been asked to give my ex-
experience regarding the best CROP
grow on small city lot. / believe
that the first item TO consider is econ
. omy of space. In the old fashioned
= country garden of my youth the rows
were spaced 3 feet apart, so cultiva-
. tloh could be made with horse culti
z z Vators. With our modern hand cul-
\ IFatorS and gardening tools, we can
s get better results by making our
= rows half closer, or less than two
3 leeU apart AS we must make use
q oL our extra hour of day light we
WIZ nave plenty of time for hand
n cultivation.
a IN my experience a good method
IS to plant Early Ohio potatoes three (
a Iee'' lncheS apart, as early as pos
n slole ana cultivate until about June
4. !, l9en plant early sweet corn orr
~ navy beans between the rows. Corn
"a ana beans, planted at that time, start
quickly and VIII get above the pota- (
to sstSopS5 before the potatoes shade the
grouffo: saA The potatoes should be dug
early in Jc4ss.SS to strike the best mar
ket and give iW6Pom for the corn and I
beans to develop .ransplanted to-
matoes and cabbage work equally as
well.
Seed onions should be planted by
themselves, preferably on very clean .
ground, and require careful wedding
and very shallow cultivation. | be-
lieve that shallow cultivation is to
be preferred, in a dry year, on all
garden crops. Another point | wish
to mention; do not plant too much
lettuce and radishes at planting.
We find a very good method is to
plant small plat to lettuce and rad
ishes and repIant between the rows
as the first crop is used. A fresh n
supply will be at hand nearly all Il
summer, if this is done. One criti-
cism of the children's war gardens
(Which | consider splendid success)
is, that too much space was occupied
by radishes and lettuce, planted at
one time and maturing when it was
drug on the market.
Ily ldCCl VI SOOd PIlSIiSdl IIOPo w
plant are Early potatoes, Navy beans,
Early sweet corn, popcorn, tomatoes,
onions, celery, cabbage and caulifiow-
er. Do not expect as large a yield
from your early potatoes as from
some of the yields from late pota-
toes in good potato year. But early
potatoes are almost sure crop and
the price is invariably good in Ju'
SO that the net returns per acre Mlsa :
average far better than many other
crops. There is, however, very much
to be desired in marketing vegetables
at this point. This situation could
probably be improved by co-opera-
tion of the gardeners, by planting
standard crops and arranging ship
ping facilities to consumers. | be-
lieve that every good city garden lot
can be made to produce at least $50
worth of produce, if proper atten-
tion is paid to the crop. Before clos
ing will say that l received bule-
tin from Ames Gowa State College)
advising against planting sugar beets
for syrup as a sugar substitute, as
they have not yet found satisfac
tory method of converting the syrup
on a small scale.