The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-12
How to Grow
MBERs.

WO 10 IlVe Hills OF cuCumDerS uSu-
ally will produce enough for the ordi-
nary family. Cucumbers require con-
siderable space. and for that reason
they may not At into the scheme of
small gardens. 1t Is possible, however,
to plant the cucumbers along a fence
or near building and train the vines
on support of wire or strings so that
they will not cucumber the ground or
occupy the space required by other
crops
In making the hills or the row in
which the seeds are planted, a small
amount of well-decayed manure should
be mixed with the soil. A little fer
tilizer also helps, but 1t should be
used carefully to prevent injury.
PEPPERS.
The large sweet peppers are rapidly
gaining favor as a garden vegetable.
Their culture Is comparatively easy;
however, the plants are very tender
and in most sections must be started
indoors and transplanted to the gar
den.
The seed is sown and the plants
handled in the same way as tomatoes.
Where the cultivation is to be entirely
by hand, the plants may be set about
eighteen inches apart in each direc-
ton. For horse cultivation they
should be placed in rows three feet
apart and eighteen inches apart in
the row.
Peppers require a rich soil in order
to make a rapid, tender growth. If
the growth is slow, the pods will be
small and lacking in crispness.
SNAP BEANS.
Snap beans, sometimes called bush
beans, bunch beans, or string beans,
are one of the most important crops
for the small garden, and will pro-
duce a large amount of food on q
given area. The first planting may be
made quite early, provided the beans
do not come through the ground in
time to be injured. 1t is a good plan
to follow the first planting in few
days by second planting to safe
guard against loss of the first planting
by late frost. Successive paintings
should be made at intervals through.
out the season in order to give con-
tinuous supply. In sections where the
heat of midsummer is such that beans
will not thrive, two or three paintings
may be made in the springtime, then
no further paintings until August or
early September, at which time one or
two paintings may be made for fall
use Beans do best on warm, we'll
drained, sandy loan soil, but they
will grow on almost any good garden
land. While beans require enough
richness in the soil to make them
grow rapidly, they should not be fed
too heavily on heterogeneous matter be-
cause Of the tendency to increase the
tops at the expense of the pods.
One pint Of snap beans will plant a
little more than 100 feet of row. The
seeds may be placed in hills, five to
hill, and the hills spaced one foot
apart, or they may be drilled, with
one bean every three inches in the
row. The depth seeds should be Gov
cred about one inch and the ground
slightly firmed. If the soil Is inclined
to be heavy, the seed should not be
covered so deeply, and care should
| be taken that the soil is not packed
over the beans.
In case of beating rain after plant
ing and before the beans are up, the
surface soil over the rows should be
loos aned by means of a steel rake
care being taken that the beans are
not injured in the process. Beans
should never be cultivated or hoed
when the foliage is wet with dew or
rain Forty to sixty days after plant
ing will be required for snap beans to
mature, and each planting will con
tinue to supply pods for about two or
three weeks, if weather conditions are
favorable.