The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-24
How ] Grew
My Garden
FIRST PRIZE STORY IN CLUB
CONTEST; WRITTEN BY
DOROTHY DASKAM.

early in the Spring l had the gar
den plowed disced, and dragged twice
in April. My garden is one hundred
and thirty feet long and twenty
feet wide. did not have to rent the
land or hire any work done on the
garden.
.There were no fertilizers used as
the garden was plowed in the spring.
"The first vegetables planted were
radishes, onions and lettuce about the
thirteenth of April. Later / planted
beets, satisfy, swiss chard, carrots
husked tomatoes, cucumbers, toma-
toes, cabbage, beans, muskmelons
and turnips.
81 cultivated the garden through
about six times by hoeing and pulling
the weeds by hand. First went
through the garden pulling the weeds
and hoeing two or three times getting
the weeds cleaned out real good. The
last three times went through the
garden it wasn't so weedy and didn t
need so much work put on it.
Il wasn't bothered with insects or
diseases very much although there
were a few cabbage worms on the
cabbages. There were cucumber bugs
on the cucumbers and potato bugs on
the husked tomatoes and swiss chard.
By applying arsonate of lead in liquid
form I killed most of the insect pests.
"The first vegetables I gathered
We're onions around the first of June.
Later in June l gathered radishes and
lettuce. Later, the last of July, I
gathered carrots, beets, swiss chard
and cucumbers to can. Most of the
garden vegetables we used at home,
excepting few cucumbers which we
sold.
81 have not selected any seed for
next year so far, but expect to save
some tomato, cucumber and musk
mellon seeds.
There have been twelve or fourteen
people to visit my garden this sum-
mer. The hail didn't do much dam
age to my garden but the wind bent
the tomato vines over quite abit.
Otherwise my garden wasn't damaged.
None of the vegetables were dried out
from want of rain but the whole gar
den needed it quite badly. The cost
of seeds and plants amounted to one
dollar and forty cents (S1.4O.) The
cost OF cultivation amounting to eight
dollars and seventy cents ($8.70)
counting my time at ten cents per
hour, the horse labor costing twenty
cents for two hours. The arsonate of
lead for spraying cost ten cents.
The total cost being ten dollars and
twenty cents ($10.20).
Il sold cucumbers amounting to six
dollars and seventy cents (S6.70). I
did not sell any canned vegetables.
The value of the vegetables used at
home, fresh and canned amounting to
ten dollars $4,000 counting the vege-
tables that are coming on later such
as the tomatoes, beans, carrots, beets,
husked tomatoes, satisfy, muskmelons
and turnips. The other products and
seed about five dollars ($5.00).
Total cost being twenty-one dollars
and seventy cents ($21.70). There
fore leaving net profit of eleven
dollars and fifty cents ($11.50).
There will be other vegetables to
be sold and canned later on.
"The onion sets | planted early in
the spring got ripe and the stems
dried up, so dug them and put them
up to dry. There will be about a
bushel and half when they are all
dug.
"There will also be carrots, beets,
satisfy and turnips which can store
away for winter use"