Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-26
By SHARLOT HALL

swinging Tn Havapai county and
 many a garden maker hunting up the
 seeds that were laid away in despair
 while the dry weeks endured.
 This has been a particularly bad
 spring for orchards and gardens-too
 cold for seeds to sprout if planted
 too dry on the non-irrigated farms
 for seeds to even start to grow, and
 so windy that what young plants had
 the courage to get above ground have
 been discouraged of doing anything
 more.
 Now we dry farmers and garden
 makers face the problem of replant-
 ing almost month late, and success
 depends on knowing what will be
 worth while in a short season. Then
 too, the continued freezing nights
 have taken the fruit in nearly all the
 Havapai orchards and if possible we
 must plan to make the gardens yield
 something to take it's place.
 There are many vegetables far too
 little known and cultivated that arc
 especially valuable for just such short
 season gardening. Off and on for the thirty-eight years that we have
 been doing more or less farming in Yavapai we have tried out most of these vegetables and 1 am going to pass on some of our experience to those who may be gardening for the first time this year.
 What we have to look out for in years like this is varieties of veget- ables that will stand good bit of heat and still yield well, or those that will stand over the summer and mature lot of food stuff in the beau tiful fall weather with which Yavapai is blessed-to sort of make up for the meanest springs, from the view point of gardener and orchardist, that ever got wished on a perfectly good country.
 There is a modest little vegetable that fills about all this bill and yet 1 have never seen it on the Prescott market nor on any table in Yavapai but our own Orchard Ranch. It be- longs to the cabbage fsmily-with strange yearnings toward being a the result is a ball-shaped bulb above the ground, topped by slender cabbage-like leaves. The 1 Kohl Rabi has a Swedish name and | is better known ill Sweden and Den i mark than in America, but all our {. seed, dealers haavc the cabbage-look- !, ng seeds and five cent packet will ! produce hundreds of plants which . may be set in rows or beds about | i've inches apart in the row. With ;are the growth is rapid and in ten weeks or less the green balls are big though to eat, 4he size of an egg.
 The flavor and texture are those of the most delicate cabbage heart md the vegetable is peeled, cooked ender in salted water, and served with any af the seasonings good with cabbage or turnips and also with var ous salad dressings It continues in {. season a long time and successive olantings may be made till Septcm- per. It keeps over the winter if grown late in the season. It bears leat and drouth particularly well and will produce quantities of food on 'ery little space. In this way it is 1. inc for backyard gardens or. small 'lots in town.
 Kohl Babi may be planted thinly where it is desired that it shall tand and thinned by using part of he bulbs while quite small. It will eaach a size of six inches across ii eft till fall but frequent plantings sed when smaller are better.
 It is not too late to plant seeds of he smaller, hard-heading varieties of ! abbage. for plants to be set out in uly and August, nor, too late for OK of tomato plants if the very arliest ripening varieties are chosen.
 Beans yield great crops of string cans all through the autumn if lantcd up to the middle of June t tut the seed should be soaked day r more i'll warm water before plant lg. |
 Soaking the seeds is one of the s ricks of getting late garden to cme up quickly and grow we'll. The ian who made bean growing a spe- ial industry in one of the northern a rizona counties always soaks the eed for his entire fields and says that I c gets healthier, more vigorous. lants than if dry seed is sown, even O moist soil. a This same man, who is one of the t lost up-to-datc farmers in Arizona, u so gave me a hint about potatoes 4 s or the home garden that Is worth