Evening journal., 1921-03-23
GROWING FOOD
ON THEFARMS
Home Gardening, Like Golf,
is a Spur TO a Friendly
Rivalry
TRANSPLANTING
SEEDLINGS NOW

Gardening can be made a very
interesting game with many Of the
features OF friendly competition
which make golf. tennis and
either summer sports so fascinat-
ing 70 many people. Like these
snorts. skill and practice increase
tho probability OF winning honors,
hut. unlike them. Il is romunorative
and is enjoyed by the entire family.
who can take part in the garden
work and enjoy eating the vege-
tables produced.
Gardening becomes a contest or
game when there is rivalry between
ncichbors to see who has the hrst
mess OF peas or the first ripe toma-
toes. or who can raise the largest
potatoes or melons. There Is
rride. too. in having some prize
product exhibited in the window OF
the local store or seeing a notice OF
some accomplishment published IN
the home newspaper.
To those who enter the game OF
gardening and covet the honor OF
havinr the first ripe vegetanles,
gardening specialists Of the United
states Dcpartment OF Agriculture
offer some suggestions for beating
7nck Frost and getting garden op-
era+ions In motion before the open
sossor for plants. These suggestions
nrc OF equal value TO those VINO
desire to lengthen the growing sea
SON or produce vegetables FOR mar
ket.
A. least four weeks time can be
80 s,ecialists say, for many
o,,-, blsc tomatoes and cabbage
,,,, starting the plants in the house
~ onerations are to be conducted on
email scale. two or three cigar
to~os filled with soil and placed IN a
routh window furnish a seed bed
for starting a few plants. For most
home gardeners a more oesirapie
seed bed can be made by placing
good soil in n fat tray three inehes
deem and OF convenient size to NJ IN
weli-lirhted window with southern
exnosure. A little care win be nee
eesarv in keeping the tray properly
v-atered. II too much water is ap-
niied the plants win decay-"damp
oo-' the gardeners call it-at the
eorface OF the soil II too little
water is applied the plants will make
n stunted growth. only experience
can show exactly what the right de-
gree OF moisture should be. Essen
t,allv. however. the surface sol
should not be allowed 20 dry out and
the plants should be given enough
water to keep them growing prop.
erly.
All garden plants are dependen
upon light for growth. and whei
started in the window immediatel,
begin to turn their heads toward tn
light. To overcome this the box Il
which they are grown should b
turned around each day. out {
doors they get the light from a
sides, but I'm the window they get
from only one side.
When the Seeding plants are bi
enough TO handle-that is, whe
they have formed about two leave
IN addition 10 their seed leaves
other boxes OF soil should be pro
vided and the plants transplante
about two inches apart each way {
give them plenty OF room. Nor
window space must be provided, an
4 may be necessary to build stag
and support one box above another
The same precautions as to water
ing and turning TO get uniform iigh
will be necessary. on warm day
the boxes can be put outdoors. Thi
will tend TO harden the plants an
get them used TO outdoor condition
20 that they win not feel the chane
when set in the garden.
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