Daily Kennebec journal., 1926-01-30

do In planning his planting is to make
1t a point to see that the same crops
DO not occupy the same space in the
garden in succeeding seasons.
1t may be put down as g settled
fact that practically all vegetables
dislike being cultivated on the same
ground for two successive years.
While they will flourish to a certain
extent, the deterioration will show il
they are grown season after season.
Repetition, garden experts tell us,
should not be oftener than every two
years.
Where you planted your corn last
year try beans this year. Do not plant
cabbages and turnips in the same
place you grew them last year and
expect the best results. Cabbages de-
velop diseases when planted in the
same place in successive seasons, such
as club root. Onions are a good crop
to alternate with early cabbages.
These facts should be kept in mind
when making the plan for the vege-
table garden this year. Last years
plan should be consulted and reversed
so far as possible. In small gardens,
so small that it is not practicable to
do much of anything in the way Of
crop rotation, extra deep digging will
be helpful, bringing up some Of the
subsoil and lining along with the fer
tilizer
If you didn't keep plan Of your
garden last year make one this spring
and lay 1t away for reference so you
can vary the location of the vege-
tables another year.
New introductionS in plants each
year add to the interest of gardening.
o,oI
ton it is likely that even the older
strains placed on the market from
year to year would deteriorate and
with this monotony would come loss
of interest in gardening.
Seldom do we have a brand new,
unknown vegetable offered. The first
effort of man is, to secure food, and
the world has been well secured for
edible plants that will grow in the
temperate zone. The best we can ex-
pect Is Improvement in the present
vegetables, due to naturalization and
selection of types. Each year brings
us many new things in this manner.
This year we shall find a new to-
mato approaching the Ponderosa
type, but without it's wrinkles. The
nippy mustards for greens have been
improved. Seed experts have pro-
uuCeu SOIle improvements IN Ino cos
lettuce types, the kind to grow IL you
have no luck with head lettuce There
are always new radishes, although
only an expert can tell the difference
between a lot of them.
The Honeyball melon, Texas de-
velopment, is one of the newest
things, a cross between the honey dew
and musk melon, but it is not for
most northern gardens as 1t needs too
long warm season. Some of Eng
lands fine new peas are found in all
the lists. They are well worth any
gardeners trial.
A new onion or two of the Spanish
type will be found. Onion growers
will soon be planting the seed for the
big Spanish types. Beans with less
vestige of strings than the former
stringless types are offered. We have
reached the elimination of the string
from the string bean.
All Of these new types in vege-
tables are we'll worth trial and
every gardener ought to try out at
least a few of them to see If they
are better than the sorts he has been
growing. The new Washington rust
proof asparagus, although on the
market for several. seasons is worth
a trial if the home patch is troubled
with these brown pest spots. There
are also more new sweet corns in
which the Golden Bantam has been
crossed with other corns.