Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-18
FOOD WILL WIN
THE WAR,PRODUCE IT
How To Plant And Cultivate
Your Home Garden To Get
Greatest Returns
GROW YOUR VEGETABLES
(By F. F. Rockwell. copyrighted by
w. Atlee Burpoe Co., Seed Grow
ers, Phila)

American gardener has yet to learn
from his friends in the old world, that
is. the surest way to have a generous
supply of foodstuffs for winter is. to
grow an abundance of root crops 10
keep for that purpose. To get the max
imum of actual food value out of the
soil, root crops must be depended
upon to do the trick.
Four Things You Should Know About
Root Crops.
First and foremost-they can be
kept for winter use more easily than
vegetables of any class.
Second and almost as important
they can be planted late and will still
mature a full crop for late fall and
winter use-and of the best quality.
Third-they are safe-because they
are troubled less by insects and dis
eases than any other class of vege-
tables.
And last, but not least-they will
produce more food value for the unit
of space occupied than any other class
of vegetables.
And just for good measure-they
will help keep on growing right
through the first frost and up until
hard freezing weather In fact, the
hardest of them like parsnips, satisfy
and the harder turnips can be left out
in the ground until they are frozen
in solid and will begin growth again
in the spring as soon as the frost is
out
For all these reasons no efficient
gardener should let the next few
weeks go by without planting his full
quota of the crops which will produce
the most food value and keep the best
for next winter. Begin with carrots,
because they take a little longer to
mature than either beets or turnips,
the other two standards for winter
use.
Not Too Late For Parsnips And Satisfy
While parsnips and satisfy are us
usually planted quite early in the
spring, in order that they may have a
chance to produce as LARGE crops as
possible, they will make roots of very
much better table quality and better
keeping quality if planted later With
the soil in good condition to insure
prompt termination of the seeds they
may be planted even yet and make
good growth before freezing weather.
Why not put in a few rows in the gar
den now between rows of beans, corn
or other things which will be gone in
a week or ten days?
Keep The Vine Crops Growing
The vine crops planted last month
will, if they get started well, begin
TO crowd each other for room. AS
soon as they do, thin out with an un-
sparing hand. Probably the most COM
mon mistake made in growing vine
crops of all kinds, is TO leave too many
| plants in hill. The gardener who has
succeeded in getting a stand of six or
eight good plants feels that he has
/ done his duty when he pulls out all
but four or five. Reduce this number
to two as soon as they begin to crowd
| Use tobacco dust as a preventative of
| striped cucumber beetle. Spray with
| Bordeaux mixture or dust with an ar
senate-sulphur compound to keep all
the new growth covered. For the
large black stink-bug use kerosene
| emulsion. Watch squash and pumpkin
vines for the borer. When the tips of
| the vines and leaves wilt on a hot day
/ search carefully at the base of the
vines for him. He can usually be To-
| Gated inside the stem within the first
| few joints from the soil. A slit in it
with a sharp knife blade will permit
you to take him out. The wound, if
covered with soil, will quickly heal.
At the time of the second hoeing,
work in a light dressing of nitrate of
soda. When the vines reach across
the rows the ends may be pinched out,
which tends to develop the side shoots
| upon which the fruits are usually
borne.
Save All Your Tomatoes
Many gardeners lose a very large
| per cent of their tomatoes through al
| lowing the vines to sprawl over the
ground Where only a dozen or two
plants are grown. it always pays to
support them. Plants thus cared for
occupy less room, produce earlier and
more first-quality table fruit, even
greater total amount, the fruit ripens
earlier, and is much less subject to the
attacks of rot or other disease.
Drive in stakes five or six feet long
soon after the plants are set out and
i tie the vines before they have made
growth enough to lop over. Some gar
\ deners prefer pruning to single stems,
| but usually more and practically as
| good and as early fruit can be had by
| allowing one or two of the suckers or
/ side shoots on the plants to grow.
| When the plants are set out in one
| or two long rows a convenient and
| easy method of supporting them is to
| put in a few stout stakes, and stretch
two pieces of wire on these, one six
inches or so above the ground and an
other four feet above the first.
| Irvine is strung between the wires,
and upon this the vines are trained.
Barrel hoops, supported by two or
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