Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-14 | Page 9 | Hints for Home Gardeners

I 4 I I N s sE E GARDENERS Tomatoes in Many Varieties Rank Near Top in Favor of Most Gardeners I This is the eleventh of a series of exclusive articles on vegetable gardening gar gar- denIng lening prepared for NEA Service and The Telegram D By D DR w WM r. r R. R BEATTIE Bureau of ot Plant Industry U. U S. S Department of ot Agriculture Ever since a disobedient little girl ate the love apples and didn't die of poisoning tomatoes have increased In n favor faor with inhabitants of the western west west- em ern hemisphere Now they are one of the most cherished of our garden crops Most of us are so eager to have ripe tomatoes from our gardens as early as possible that we go to all kinds of trouble to start the plants in the house louse to nurse them along in hotbeds hot hot- beds cds or and f finally nally cover the plants with papers on cold nights after aCter the they are set in the garden It takes about as much tomato seed as you can hold between your our thumb and finger to give you all the early carly plants slants you ou will need for your jour garden That small pinch of seed planted in ina a cigar box filled with good clean mellow nellow soil will provide at least one onehundred onehundred hundred plants for your garden TRANSPLANT AFTER FIRST LEAF As soon as the plants are up and have lave formed their first true leaf in addition to the seed leaves they should be transplanted to a larger box of good soil and spaced at least two inches in each direction Remember that tomato plants are arc easily injured by frost so do not plant them out too early Southern gardeners can ean have ripe I tomatoes from their gardens as early as the latter part of May or the first Trailing tomato vines Ines should be tied up to prevent rotting of or fruit that comes conies in contact with the ground of or June those living in the central sections can have them about the of at July and farther north in the middle of July TIME TO SEED The main seeding of af tomatoes for forthe forthe forthe the summer crop and for canning should be made about the time lime that seed can be sown out of at doors In Inthe Inthe Inthe the extreme north where the growing growing grow grow- ing season is very short the ma main mam n seeding should be in a or in some cases in a hotbed gaining as RS much time as possible so that the fruit will vIll ripen before frost in the early fall Bonny Best John Bacr Baer and Greater Create Baltimore arc are among the older standard standard standard stand stand- ard varieties with Stone for late o or canning tomato Very recently three new varieties of great merit have been developed These are arc the I Break o 0 Day and Pritchard The Pritchard has just been released and only a few are offering seed this year The l is pronounced to be bethe bethe bethe the best general purpose and canning tomato yet introduced but the Break Brea 0 o Day is a little earlier Saturday Weeding Weeding- and watering I the he garden