The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1920-04-01
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LUBBOCK COUNTY BOYS
AND GIRLS CLUB
= 49, 80
The History Of My Crop
By Lena Klattenhof

| Joined the club because ] thought
that il was n good thing for the girls
OF a community 10 belong TO so that
they could get together and see what
other girls are doing, and another
reason is because | would feel more
like the fair would be part of my
work than | would if ! had canned
something and taken IT 70 the fair
and not be a club girl. There are
also different reasons, one IS that IN
the meetings you learn to sew and
many other things. In the spring
some times you are invited to a
short course" and that is something
that you will never forget what you
learn there.
NV tomatoes are still green and
will be green for some time. iona
toes was the only thing | raised that
| kept a record Of so my garden is
still green. have one-tenth acre Of
tomatoes, which is the size of my
garden. My garden lies in the center
of the garden which is about an acre
and one-half square | selected this
place because it was near the water
and / thought if we had had another
dry year, as we did last year ! could
have irrigated and made something
out Of my crop anyhow and that is
the reason | selected this place to
plant my tomatoes.
prepared my soil by blowing il
deep in January one way and in Feb
ruary | plowed il again the other
way, real deep again so ! would have
my soil in good condition for this
season.
The kind of fertilizers ] used was
manure which did a lot Of good.
applied il mostly last fall and in the
winter.
| planted my tomatoes in a bed
in the garden although not in hot
bed. My plants did very good and
became healthy plants. ! planted my
seed the 21st of April and the 26th
Of May they were large enough 10
transplant which | transplanted most
of them. The way transplanted them
is | just set them out about two or
two and one-half feet apart and they
grew nicely.
! cultivated my plants by hoeing
them when they needed Il and irri-
gated them once or twice. ! also
plowed them two or three times be-
fore the plants were too large
; The way | pruned them was by
cutting off the suckers. ] did not
stake my plants but have made a
great mistake
did not have any insects in my
tomatoes | had few 20 die with
the wilt and | could find nothing 70
help that.
As | harvested my tomatoes, /
weighed them and kept account Of
every pound that ] harvested.
did my canning myself without
any one 10 help me | canned one jar
and II did not keep, so had to throw
il out another jar which ] had can
ned the fruit in, cracked so | emptied
that jar and filed another. My to
matoes were not good because some
thing had settled in II and | tried to
get il out by opening the jar and
they all suuirted out al the top 50
they were not good. All my other four
jars were good and ! certainly was
glad of that too.
| could not get my preserving
glasses so could not make any pre-
serves ! was certainly sorry of that
too.
We have had lots of good times
at our meetings. When we had our
lesson in sewing when some OF the
girls could pull no threads. At an
other meeting when we canned and
some of them could skin no tomatoes.
So | have had lots of good times at
our meetings.
While at the Short Course / learn
ed how to use the different kinds Of
vegetables in different ways ! had
never thought Of fixing vegetables
that way before. / also learned how
to make the different vegetables into
salads and into different soups, "the
cream Of pea soup" and several 9th
err different ones.
have gathered 5S7 i-2 pounds
Of tomatoes this summer and about
another time as many on the vines TO
/ be picked Oft when they get ripe