The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-19
SUGGESTIONS BY THE
MONTH

After these seeds are planted Or
der your fertilizer Eve recommend
sheep manure). To grow quality
| and quantity the plants must be
fed. If well rotted stable manure
to each 100 square feet: if sheep
manure, S pounds to 100 square
feet.
About the Goth many of the seed
lings will be ready to transplant
All plants should be gradually hard
| ened by more exposure to the cool
air each day as weather permits.
Plant onion sets. The end of the
month usually finds the ground
| ready for preliminary work. Spread
the fertilizer or manure but do not
! plow or spade the ground if it is
still sticky. If the ground is ready
to work, pillow or spade 6 inches
deep or more, turning top soil down
to completely cover all manure. II
the ground is sour or acid, apply
lime at the rate of pounds to
each 100 square feet. You will
find it pays to plant everything in
the longest possible rows; small
beds waste ground and increase the
time of cultivating, especially if a
wheel hoe is used. Do not plant
seeds too deep. Lettuce, Onion,
Radish, Endive, Carrots, etc, not
over Y inch. Melons and cucum-
bers, inch. Peas, Beans and Corn
inches.
Set out Cabbage and Cauliflow-
er, plant Peas, Beets, Carrots. Let
| tuce. Parsnip, Parsley, Satisfy and
| Radish.
Plant Green Beans. Start shall
low cultivation where seedlings are
showing.
All rows that have made a good
start should be thinped out, as no
| vegetable will do we'll if crowded.
See that everything is well cult
waited. Do not allow the ground to
crust around the plants.
May LIST - Plant Cucumbers,
Sweet Corn, Squash. Set out To-
/ mato, Egg and Pepper plants. Get
your poles or wires ready for tail
Lima Beans.
May 10th to 15th-Plant Pole and
Bush Limas, Wax Snap Beans, Cos
/ Lettuce and Melons. May is the
time to put in the real work as ii
is the month that makes or mars
the sea sons results.
! Thin out your rows, top dress all
leaf crops Cabbage, Cauliflower
| Lettuce, etc. with nitrate of soda
! in solution 2 ounces to l gallon OF
| water.
Water the garden thoroughly in
the evening during dry spells. Give
| plants a good drenching as little
| water when the ground is dry has
a tendency to bring the roots to the
| surface Watch all plants for aph
is, plant lice and leaf cutting bugs
and be prepared to get after them
| at their first appearance by having
on hand Black Leaf Forty" Arsen
ate of Lead, Bordeaux.
Keep the weeds down.
Keep the surface of the ground
! loose.
Above are two essentials for q
successful garden.
This means keeping at it all sum
mer, but if attention is given Il
the garden regularly. "a little time
each EVENING" one will find it more
! of a pleasure than task.
! Never allow a.crust to form. This
will happen after any hard rain
/ Do not attempt to cultivate while
! the ground is muddy,-wait unit
| the crust begins to form.
| Do not cultivate too deep-one
inch is enough to provide thir
layer of fine soil. This will pre-
vent the moisture from rising tt
the surface where the wind anC
sun would evaporate it.
AS each row is used, same should
be dug up at once and other seed
sown. In this way the garden car
be kept bearing up to frost. Follow
your early vegetables with Beets
Summer Radish. Turnip. Endive
Chicory, Corn Salad, Kohl Rabi
etc. Sugar Corn can be planted III
to July Goth.