Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-01-21
Selma Rude's Garden.

During my summer vacation L had
a school garden. The first thing I did
was to take spade and begin to dig up
the soil and turn it over. I took a hoe
and began to work the soil until I had
the big Jumps of dirt all out. I then
took a rake and began to work on the
soil till 1 had my garden all even. Then
I took the seeds and began to plant them
as I went along. I had a sprinkler with,
me and I put water on them. Then /
took the hose and sprinkled on a soft
spray of water.
The size of my garden was 24x20 feet.
The things 1 learned were: Not to plant
will not get good chance to grow
They will not be as large, for they have
not enough room. / also learned how to
take up carrots without hurting the
| others next to them. l had some beets
| that I planted too close together and
thinned them out to make them grow
| better. Those I took out I planted in an
| empty space. I found out that the
plants that got the most sunshine and
| air grow the best. I planted the seed
about one inch deep, and the tomatoes
I set in about two inches
l took good care of my garden. I
weeded my garden every day I found
| time. You have to be very careful when
you are wedding seed onions. Some
|
| of the onions and you might pull up
| onions instead of weeds. There was
| very little rain this spring so if you did
not water your garden with hose it
would die entirely. In order to keep
your plants growing you have to loosen
up the soil. One way you can dig it up
| is with hoe.
If you want ripe tomatoes you must
let the sun shine on them. If you want
| green tomatoes you must watch them
and take them when they are tender.
IT you want to keep carrots all winter
long find a box and put fine sand or
leaves in it and put the carrots in this
The parsnips can be kept the same as
carrots. The best way is to let them
stay in the ground over winter. Then
they are best in the spring. Beets car
be stored in a cool dry place. To get
the best use of them is to take them
when they are young and tender.
Peas are very good for household use
Peas can be planted two or three times
in the summer. To get the most use OF
the string beans is to pick them right
along in the summer. Radishes are best
when they are young. When they gel
too old they are not fit for use.
Gladys Anderson's Garden.
When I first Joined the United State.
school garden, I thought would MOI
succeed, but I thought would at leas,
try; so 1 went out in the garden ant
loosened the earth, I raked it over yer,
smoothly. then made my burrows ans
planted my seed. I first planted fou
rows potatoes, four rows, onions, fou
rows carrots and parsley, four row
parsnips and radishes and lettuce.
planted some cucumbers and tomatoes
l watched my garden nearly every da,
to see if it wouldn't, soon come up
At last it did come up. started t.
water and weed it at once. My vege
tables came up very fine. In a week O
so I noticed they were DYING. Thei
leaves were dropping. I watered then
thinking that the ground was dry. I
did not seem to help, dug under,
lettuce plant and II found cutworma
found several more but they wer
worse on my potatoes and radish. The
were SO bad that I had to plant my gar
den the second time. knew my garis
would be late but I had made mp ii,
mind to have garden and I did no
want to spo3l It. planted 1t over II