The Owosso times., 1922-04-14
use every INCH
Of GARDEN SOIL
Intensive Farming" Applies as
Well to Small Plot as to
the Large Tract.
EASY TO GROW VEGETABLES
Careful Gardener Can Find Room for
Additional Plants il Best Judg-
ment Is Used in Plan
ming Seed Bed.

''Intensive farming" long ago won
the o. X. of the practical agriculturist
who found that it was to his financial
interest to make two or more grow
where one grew before.
The same rule applies, or should
apply, to the cottage gardener-the
fellow who has only II few feet OF
space, compared with the three or four
hundred acre farm. r
1t Is just as essential that the back
yard 'fence corners" be made to pro-
duce as it Is that the formerly un-
used places on the farm be brought
into a state of production.
In the back yard of the majority of
small homes, in both country and city,
there are spaces that have been
neglected because the man Of the house
was not exactly i'm the mood Of spad
ing it up when planting time arrived.
Spading time should extend from the
time the one crop was garnered the
previous fall to the time when the soil
is actually prepared for the next sea
son. Spading in the fall is not bad
idea. The leaves and other fertilizer
producing growths can be turned under
and also made to work for you.
Value of Rich Soil.
If you are fortunate enough to OBJ
tain a load or two of stable manure,
of course it is better to turn this
under in the fail and allow it to be well
rOtted by spring--and not blown away
by the winter winds. Although much
manure has large quantity of straw
mixed with it, the straw also enriches
the soil.
With the ground. well cared for in
the. fall before the freezing weather
starts, it is in condition to be brought
into the best producing state in the early
spring, when little, if any, spaditg will
be necessary to make the seed bed
and the worst of the work is over and
the home gardener is happy with his
prospects.
Then-when actual planting time
cOmes-when the ground Is warm and
there seems to be no danger Of frost
that Is the time to make the most Of
the situation.
No plants will do their best il
crowded, but there are many vegetables
that will do well by being planted
close together Those that require
most space should havesall they need
but 1t is well to remember that some
of the small vegetables that grow close
to the ground and are out of the way
early can be grown between the larger
plants, such as tomatoes and beans,
which develop slowly.
When crowding Can BE Done.
BY exercising careful judgment a
little more crOwding may be done In
some instances than has been done
by many gardeners, and more inter
crOpping-planting between the later
developing plants-may be carried out,
much to the qualification Of the
gardener.
1t is a great pleasure to the proud
gardener to see the young plants shoot
Ing up in every nook and corner of his
back yard--no weeds-stakes for the |
more rapid growing plants-everything
docking prosperous.
With reasonable weather conditions
1t us Just as easy to have a splendid
garden as 1t is a poor one-and not
dirt to adhere to the roots and give
them a better start when they are
planted out. II the plants are grown
in flower pots, In paper bands, or
B erry boxes. they should be carried to
slie garden in their containers. Pot
grown plants should be lOosened by
irerting them gently and knocking
the edge Of the pot on something solid.
The plants then are set with the ball
OF earth adhering to their roots.
Gf the plants have been grown in pa
per hands or berry boxes, the sides
Of the bands or boxes should be slit
with knife and removed as the plants
are set. Where the plants are grown
in trays or in a hotbed, q knife should
he run between the rows. cutting the
earth In both directions. and each