The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-05-02
Garden Notes

lne rdIcOh Iamlly enjoyed last SUM-
day, April q the first mess of English
peas from Their home garden. Il is
rather earlier than usuat, il being cuun.
ted fortunate If to- first peas are ready
for ea'ing by the first Sunday IN wa,.
Spring lamh and green peas hr 6r.t
sunday in May mas long been counted
he early date for these favorites. We
1eat 1t on the peas. nut had no spring
limb TO go with them. tn Sc peas were
,lant-d early in January ard were Of
ne Alaska variety, seed grown aid
aved at b me last year. We have an
other plant,Ig Ui tie same variety nov
10 full bloom aud TWO pla tlngs OF
Horsetord's Mark t Garden Pea, one
about six inches high, the other Just
up, all these TO Keep up a succession for
several weeks.
May is the date eneral for plant
ing waterm Ions and csnteloupes n
this section. We have few of each
already up, but the planting season for
them is counted just now opening. Get
busy on few rows.
We have already three plantiDgs of
corn. Early Adams is now foot high,
a few days later a planting OF Early
Surprise Is worked out and growing
nicely, and another planting of four
rows made last Week consisted of two
rows of Mexican June and two of Hast
ings Profile, with these We plan not to
be without roasting ears from about
June TIL the middle OF July anc otn.
er paintings will De made TO come right |
along and fill out tue time till frost ~ d |
after. just row or two at a time
will turn the trick tor you If kept up
at Intervals OF ABOUT three weeks from
now to the last OF July.
As advised in previous years, we plant
Earliana tomatoes for first early and
Store for later crop. with a second
planting of Stone made for transplant !
ing in June or July for fall bearing.
Any tomato we have ever seen bearb
one good crop OF large fruits and then
bears lot of much smaller fruits ON
till frost. A row trsnsplanted in late
June or Early July will give the big TO-
matoes in the late summer and tie fail. /
A succession of snap beans should be
arranged thruout the summer by plant
ing each two Or three weeks, row at
time.
A few egg plants will furnish an av-
erags sized family with one of the dsin.
tlest OF vegetable from July until frost
and those VINO have never grown them
wonld enjoy The novelty of 1T.
Several have asked what Plmento pep
per We adver rtised last week is. 1t ls
counted as the sweetest and mestiesI
Of the sweet peppers, not altogether as
large as some OF the largest sweet pep
pers but il is the one the Government
agents require for use of their canning
club members and is, without a doubt,
the very best of sweet peppers.
Those who expect 10 raise crop of
celery should plant the seed now If they {
expect to grow their own plants. We
prefer to plant in the row and thin to
stand, but they can be planted on bed
and transplanted when ready. The dry
seasons of the past year or two
have made the crop failure with us,
but for J ears before we have grown our
full home supply and il is far superior
to the bought celery grown in the north
which is coarse and tough as compared
with the home grown.
The frost of last Saturday morning,
April 26, dio considerable damage to
tender vegetation in some parts of the
county Many gardens located in low
lands suffered severely. beans, tomatoes, I.
and other tender stuff being killed out.
1t did very l,tie damage in our garden
which is on high ground. and while there
was some frust, it was not heavy euough
to hurt any thinS.