The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-04-01
HOME DEM. NEWS
By Allene Mccormick
Home Demonstration Agent


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n z. O. Monosmith, Extension Horti-
culturist, gives the following for April
. paintings:
APRIL PAINTINGS: Frost leaves
Mississippi in April. Tender vegetables
that can be planted now are: Beans,
cantaIoupe, corn, cucumber, eggplant
(plants), pepper plants, tomato plants,
Crowder peas, squash, and New iceland
spinach. Cool season crops that can
still be planted successfully: Beets,
carrots, cabbage (plants), chard, ieaf
lettuce, mustard onion (plants or sets),
radish and English peas.
BUSH SNAP BEANS-Make 2 paintings
8 weeks apart after danger of frost has
passed. Stringless green-pod. Refugee
or Bountiful are good varieties, usually
planted in drill to get stand a inches
apart. Start busting early for bean
beetles, using vi Derris Dust. Do
not cultivate or handle bean plants while
wet.
POLE SNAP BEANs-Two general
methods Of planting are used: Seed
sown in drill under continuous t%rellis,
leaving plants 3 to 4 inches apart, or
4 to S seed sown in hills 3 feet apart
il individual pole supports are to be
used. II poles are used, 1t 10 recon-
mended that 4 poles forming a square,
in adjacent rows, be pulled together and
tied at top to form a "tepee." Side
dress pole beans with 4-S-4 or 1877,
using 8 POUNDS per 100 feet Of row.
Watch for bear beetles.
BUTTER BEANS-Should not be
planted until soil is thoroughly warm.
Plants Of both bush and pole varieties
should be 4 inches apart in row.. Plant
pole varieties along garden fence
follow early vegetables with bush varie-
ties. Many gardeners plant beans with
eyes down to aid s~prouting.
SWEET CORN-Don't miss this home
garden treat IL Your garden is so feet
square or larger. Plant hybrid strains,
such as Golden Cross. Bantam or Aristo-
gold Bantam varieties. Make three
plantings-April /, April %, and May 8
or thereabouts. Place 2 seed in hill
2 feet apart, thin to l plant and do not
pull suckers. Natures in go days.
TOMATOES-Set coldframe plsnts 2
to 8 feet apart in 3-foot sows. Water
and shade for several days. II plants
are leggy, set deep, leaving only 4 to
8 inches of stem out Of ground. Set
4-foot stakes 8 inches from plants.
Prune to 2 or 3 stems. Tie 3 times with
string or torn cloth. Side-dress with
4-S-4 or 1877, a small handful per plant
when first bloom appears. Varieties:
Marglobe, Rutgers, Essary, Prichard.
poison bait in evening before planting
to control cutworms or wrap paper
collars" around stem before planting.
BEETS-When 2-3 inches high, thin
to spacing Of 8 inches apart. Fill in
skips in row. by transplanting from
thinned plants.
CARROTS-If first planting did not
make a good stand, don't dig up the
whole row, but replant the skips with
more seed. II you are having trouble
cultivating rows Of seed that are slow
coming up, put few radish seed in the
rows when you sow carrots, lettuce, and
beets. They will mark the row and in
some instances, help the slow seedlings
through if a crust has formed.
ENGLISH PEAS-It is late for plant
ing peas, but stalking is an important
job to be lone now. Provide brush or
string supports as follows: Alaska,
Thomas Laxton and World Record varie-
ties, 30-inch support; Telephone and
Creole varieties, 4 to 5-foot supports.
Watch plants for lice. Spray with 1
teaspoonful of Black Leaf 40 to / gal
Ion of soapy water if lice are found.
CABRAGE-Watch cabbage for lice.
Spray with Black Leaf 40 or strong soap
solution Il Id. soap to a gallons water)
if lice are found. Side-dress cabbage
with commercial fertilizer (4-8-4 or 49,
y using 3 to 4 pounds per 100 feet of
row if none was used before planting.
Place a ring around plants to 6
inches from plant, of l pound nitrate
of soda, if available, to each 100 feet
of row.
LETTUCE-Plant only leaf lettuce
now, as head lettuce will not head when
sown this late. B~lace-Seeded or Simp-
son Grand Rapids varieties are recon-
mended.
MUSTARD-Make at least 2 more
small paintings of mustard in April. The
young tender leaves are best. Try vari-
ETY. Tendergreens. Broadleaf mustard
seed is scarce-use it sparingly. South
ern Curled Mustard is best when young,
so don't plant too much at one time.
0~NI0NS-The late season will make
possible the setting of onion plants in
April with fair results. Use Bermuda
or Sweet Spanish, setting them 4 inches
apart.
SQUASH-Plant yellow summer crook
neck, using 3 seed per hill, spaced 3
feet apart and rows 4 feet apart.
PEPPER-Plant ~ California Won
der sweetpepper and s hot pepper plants
2 feet apart in 3-foot rows.
EGGPLANT-Plant 6 to ~ Black
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