Show THIN YOUR PLANTS AND THUS SECURE BEST IN I VEGETABLES I Pull Up Scraggy Ones Save Good Ones With Dark f Green Color I 1 I By fly RANK lu In thinning plants tho the ave average e gardener garden gar Jar den dener er Is 15 often otten reluctant when it ft comes to pulling up tho thrifty ones but Ifan if all an of oC them are allowed to remain f few w will mature maturo satisfactorily Pull up tho scra scraggy ones one and savo tho good ones one that havo haro a dark dork green n color Peas if planted in a. a good soil Boll usually usually usually ally thrive best bent when pl planted nt d quito close together and seldom need an any thinning thinning- They Thoy are usually drilled In rows Tows and may be allowed to grow Just Justas as they come como up without thinning This is not the tho case with beans beans- They aro are often orten planted in hills especially th the tho pole polo varieties that aro staked and need to be thinned When they thoy have been planted with not moro than five seed to tho the bill hill and tho the hills are at least twelve Inches a apart rt they will not need to bo ho thinned but If it more mora than that number has been planted it will wUI b bo be best thin to-thin them leaving from four to five plants plantz In each hill Thin Routing Oarn anlIn S SIn In order to havo have roasting roasting- cars that are filled to the end with the tho tips covered covered cov coy ered cred and plump grains sweet corn rn should always alway be thinned leaving lea not moro more than three or fur four stalks in each hilL hilt Pull pun out the weak stalks and leave leavo the thrifty ones Radishes are seldom planted so 50 thick thinning when that they will ill need the plants are arc young Unless they are arc too thick radishes may be all allowed ed to stand and the thinning can be bo done dono when tho the plants are pull for tor table able as they reach edible size This uso be followed with same practice may en entirely entirely on- on lettuce which is generally sown Bown too thickly Thin tho the beds b by pulling the small or medium sUed sIzed plants out for tor table us use Do Not Crowd Flam Crowded plants never produce high 0 sa sao sac yields and there thero is even oven a greater of at quality where they are not ample space to grow in The vegetables vega vege i give reach their full tull size ud tables never novel of ot crowded that In case coso nt are t so 30 such as radishes and beets they irregular crops in shape shap shape crooked crooked roo d and are re much orthe of or extent that pitted to such an edible part Is wasted when they the in inmany Inmany inmany used The stand is too thick are al always always always al- al many gardens this year There is gardeners to Sow ow ways a a. tendency for or This seeds than are necessary more particularly true during seeding oeding was time this year for tor the season was late extremely unfavorable and growers growers grow grow- and wanted to be certain of a good ers em thick stand from the first planting fh They rhey oy at least wanted to have hav enough Wn Waste Allt te e A Avoided Told scheme doubt a a. good This wa was no this time resulted in no has up to particular D. harm except the extra se seeds ds h have L' L been wasted wanted However the plants ujust be thinned soon before they be begin be- be I gin fn crowding each other out oat thin better to always It is most t than han to have to replant several d days 8 the after aCer the first planting because work of caring caring caring car car- and the tho st stand nd is uneven ing for the tho crop Is 15 increased The late plants usually suffer more from the at attacks attacks attacks at- at tacks o of oC insects and the they also aso mature later doubling the tho work at harvest time Not all an vegetable crops need thinninG thin thin- ninG With Ith some ome crops such for ex example ex- ex radishes it il is a aco ample a. a as beets beets' and co common mon practice to delay the tho thinning ready to use URe In InthIs Inthis Inthis until the the- plants are deal of or waste is this way a great avoided When to Thin Red in In general however most of tho vegetable crops will win need to tobe tobe tobo common be bo thinned and the work should be he bedone pone done before the wants plants become too large huge If U the thinning is done dono when hen the tho plants pla are very small the work is lis much easier The extent to which plants are to tobe In thinning depends on be- be pulled out the kind of plant the na nature re o of its growth the method of or cultivating and has training The kind of or soil also something j to do with thinning J Jf r the he soil is rich in general more moro plants mav be 1 left crt |