Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-26
MONEY SAVING
BY The HOBBY
OF GARDENING

families that we read so much about
In advertisements don't hold candle
to the opportunity for saving which
is open to everyone with small piece
Of ground and an interest in that ever
popular hobby of gardening.
earn S. an hour" "Why not have
a net saving of $500 from your hobby
this summer" Headlines like these
night honestly be used to extol the
possible rewards one may reap from
a summer garden.
Records show that a woman in Mis-
souri, Melted 1862 from garden two
thirds of an acre in size. Figuring
values as prevailing market prices,
this woman got fresh vegetables for
table use worth $3.50; she canned food
worth $50, and stored vegetables
worth ST..
She spent II hours in the garden
and her seed cost was only $40. She
figured that she received return of
q little more than SIS for every hour
spent in the garden.
Another Missouri woman expended
snly $3.50 for seeds and sets. She re-
ported that her garden of
an acre-yielded fresh vegetables
worth $1O4, canned vegetables valued
at SAB and stored vegetables worth
$37.
To realize garden profits of this
kind, seeds of high quality and will
ingness to work are. of course, prime
requisites. 1t is also important, we
are advised by Gordon Morrison, ex-
pert of the Ferry Seed Breeding Sta
tion, that the gardener give proper
attention to growing multi--purpose
crops like beets, onions and toma-
toes-vegetables which may be used
in wide variety of ways.
Following are the important vege-
tables in this classification and their
principal uses:
Beets-Tops may be eaten as
green's; roots may be cooked fresh,
canned, picked or stored.
Onions--Young onions may be eat
en- green; mature bulbs may be fried
or stewed, or cooked with other foods;
poots may be used in making pickle
mixtures; tops may be used as season.
ing; roots may be stored.
Tomatoes-Mature fruits may be
sliced fresh, or cooked for table use;
mature fruits may also be canned, or
used in making tomato juice or to-
Mato catsup; green tomatoes may be
fried, used in making pickle mixtures
or used as pie filler like mince meat)
and yellow tomato fruits may be used
for preserves as well as for juices or
for table use. Combination of ripe
red and yellow tomatoes, incidentally,
make attractive center pieces fer the
table.
Cabbages-May be used fresh in
salads or slaw; may be cooked for
table use, canned as kraut, or stored.
To save in gardening, gardeners
will profit also by following the rules
Of companion cropping and succession
cropping, so as to get the highest
possible yield from the space avail
able. In companion cropping they
plant rows of fast-maturing crops be-
tween the rows of slower maturing
vegetables, and the earlier vege-
tables have been pulled and used be-
fore the later crops require the space.
Where succession and companion crop
ping are practiced, soil must be given
applications of manure or commercial
fertilizer.
In succession cropping, the garden
er makes several paintings of short
season crops, keeping the ground oc-
supied all season long and maintain
ing steady supply of fresh ~vege-
We have one of the finest equipped
plants on the Shore for turning 0u'