The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-29
IL MONTHS HOME
GARDEN IS URGED
Niswonger Explains Idea
Garden Produces Food For
Each Month In Year

A good home garden is one tina
provides an abundance of food
whether fresh, stored, or canned
for each month of the year, &C
cording to H. r. Niswonger, hor
ticulturist of the State College Elk
tension Service.
Such a garden should contain a
least five OF more green or leafy
vegetables, in which would be in
Guided cabbage, kale, lettuce, tur
nip salad, mustard, Swiss chard
tendergreen, and collards. Also 1
should have five or more of thu
root vegetables such as beets, car
rots, onions, sweet and Irish pota
toes, satisfy, turnips, radishes
rutabagas, and parsnips.
In addition, five or more of tn,
following vegetables should be in
cluded; snap and lima beans
corn. garden peas, field peas, pep
pers, tomatoes, okra, pumpkin
squash, cantaloupe, cucumber
ana egg plant.
In making suggestions for May
NisWonger pointed out that space
between the rows should be utiliz
ed with a second planting of the
same vegetable or a different ont
it the garden is small.
A furrow should be run between
each row Of vegetables, using
medium-sized ploy. This should b.
filled full Of well-rotted stable
manure or partly filled will
chicken manure. Next a small
quantity of is percent superphos
phate or a 4-12-4 fertilizer shoule
be spread over the manure. Fin
ally, turn a double furrow owe
this, level it down. and plant the
seed.
In continuing his suggestions
for May, the State college horticul
turist explained that this month i:
the time to begin making plan:
for the fall garden.
AS soon as the early or mid
season vegetables have been har
vested and, if the area occupied
by these vegetables is to remain
idle, the dead plants or vine:
should be cleaned or burned off
The next step involves the broad
casting of a liberal application O.
chicken or stable manure and acie
phosphate, these materials to bt
plowed under. The area should bt
cultivated after each rain, keep
ing down grass and weeds in orde,
to have the soil in a good physica
condition for fall planting. Like
wise, other soil areas not occupied
by vegetables should be prepared
for fall gardens.
Niswonger pointed out tina
where extreme heat and early fal
frosts are limiting factors, ont
or more coldframes, each six fee
wide and 20 to Is feet long may
be used to provide fresh fall vege
tables.
Water can be used in supplying
moisture during the hot dry pc
RODS; lath strips or brush over thu
coldframes can be used to breal
the direct rays of the sun and to
bacco canvas or muslin to cove.
frames in order to give p%rotectio,
against early fall frosts.
One of the greatest problem;
controlling the home gardener i
that of controlling insects and dis
eases. What might have been al
ideal garden is often ruined as
result of attacks by these natura
enemies.
In controlling Mexican beal
beetles, cabbage worms, and sim
liar leaf-eating insects, derris dust
often called rotenone dusts, hav'
proved effective in most gardens
Two dustings Of insecticides con
tanning three.quarters of one pc
cent %rotenone or one per cent 70
tenone dust usually suffice to con
troll bean beetles. The dust shoult
be applied to the underside of til,
leaves when beetles are presen
and again when egg clusters ar
first observed.
Derris root containing four per
cent rotenone at the rate of /
level tablespoonfuls to three gal
Ions of water can be used as
spray. Sucking insects such a
plant lice or aphids can be con
trolled with this same materia
or nicotine sulphate (40 percent
may be used at the rate of on
teaspoonful to one gallon Of water
with a one-inch cube of soap dis
solved in the water.
To control potato bugs, the vine
should be busted with calcium
arsenate mixed with four parts o
~Ihydrated lime. If a spray is de