The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-05
MANY SUGGESTIONS
FOR HOME GARDENS

A home garden is incomplete un-
less it includes some of the 10 per-
manent vegetables and small fruits
in addition to the regular annual veg
etaOles that are usually planted. A
bed Of asparagus, several hills of rhu-
barb, a few plants of horseradish,
Strawberries, raspberries, blackber-
RES, grapes, ~currants and gooseber-
ries, according to locality and avail
able space are valuable additions to
the home garden.
All of the above might not thrive
in any one locality or on one type Of
soil, and care must be exercised in
making the selection. About 80. out
of every 100 farms in. the United
States have upon them some form of
q home garden or source of supply of
fresh vegetables. Many of these gar
dens include, in addition to the an
nual vegetables, small fruits and Ger
tain of the perennial OF more or less
permanent vegetables. Thousands of
city, town, and village gardens also
include small fruits, asparagus, rhu-
barb, and other permanent crops.
There should be a great revival in
the planting of small fruits and
grapes In connection with home gar
dens, especially in sections where
home orchards are dying out or new
Ones are not being planted. The care
of small fruits as regards spraying
and other requirements is more SIM
pie than that of the orchard fruits,
and the small fruits can be grown or
a much more limited pace.
When space is available a section
of the garden may be set aside 70,
the permanent vegetables and the
small fruits. The location of these
permanent crops, however, should be
such that they will not interfere with
the blowing of the garden or the cul
tlvatlon of the annual vegetables
In no case should the small fruits bs
crowded, it being best to plant q linn.
tied number, selecting those best
adapted to the region.
In small gardens the asparagu:
bed may be placed in one corner OF
In an offset at the end of the garden
and the hills of rhubarb along thf
side fence, where they will be out O,
the way of general cultivation. Some.
times the rhubarb or asparagus is ar.
ranged III a sort of row or narrow
bed across the front of the garden
separating the garden proper from
the lawn at the rear of the house
In large gardens everything shout,
be planted in straight rows in ordel
to facilitate cultivation. Dewberrie,
can often be trained upon a fence
and grapes a be grown on an arbo,
over the garden walk.
Climatic and soil conditions re
strict the planting of some of tn,
vegetables and a number of the sraal
fruits to prescribed localities. Fo,
example, rhubarb thrives only j,
those parts of the country where tn,
ground freezes to a depth of 4 inche,
or o during the winter.
Generally speaking, raspberries viii
not stand very hot or dry weather
B~lackberries can endure hot weather
but not hot, drying winds. Dewber
rles are grown mostly in the warme,
parts of the country. In very cob,
sections the plants of these fruit.
should receive some kind of white
protection. Loganberries are grow,
only in the Pacific coast states.
Currants and gooseberries de hes
IN a cool clirnase; but can stand quit.
warm summers Of they have plent,
of water. 1t is not permissible I,
plant currants and gooseberries i,
sections wher the white pine IS
grown, because these plants harbo
the blister rust, which is destructiv,
to white-piHe trees. There are vari
etles Of grapes for every sectio,
where any other fruits are grown
Strawberries will grow PRACTICAL,
everywhere.-Rural Mechanics.