Show You and Your Garden I Growers Now Plow Enjoy Vegetable Harvest i By nr Genevieve Genc H. H Folsom om T Telegram rn Garden Editor Those lucky people who found space pace In their gardens g for a few vegetables are arc now reaping the benefits for or it is harvest time for Cor many of the vegetables and time timeto to store tI them em for delightful eating through the winter While the thc lovely garden of Lester Lester Lester Les Les- ter Shields at 12 1228 8 E E. E South features flowers flower and especially roses he reserves reser a few spots to grow the fresh vegetables the family family family fam fam- ily enjoys This spring Mr Shields planted a few squash seeds near the foundation of his house He also put up a wire trellis tall tan enough for any ordinary squa squash h vine But not this vine for like Jacks Jack's beanstalk lk it grew rew and grew until it literally covered one whole side sida o of his two-story two dwelling The great squash which hung hung- from top to bottom of the vine tine are now furnishing delicious eating eating eating eat eat- ing for family and friends Squash should be harvested before before before be be- fore heavy frost sets in Parsnips usually are kept in the ground until used and cabbages can be stored head down doom in a straw-lined straw pit with nith the roots left out of the ground I If you dont don't have a root cellar you will be Interested in the method one local loral gardener has of oC storing carrots and potatoes He digs a pit about three feet wide one and one half feet deep and long enough to hold the quantity quantity quantity quan quan- of vegetables you wish to store Line Linc the pit with dry straw place a inch mch board down the middle of the pit then place the carrots on one side and the potatoes pota- pota potatoes toes on the other othel When placing I the vegetables in the pit be careful to keep the center higher than the edges Before covering the pit take lake a apiece apiece apiece piece of surfaced mineral roofing roll it into a tube and tie Into shape with a string then place the tube on the edge edg-e of the board This makes an air vent Now cover the vegetables with straw and the straw with dirt Make sure the end of the tube tub sticks slicks up through the dirt Then place a V shaped piece of sheet iron over over the hole to prevent rain or snow from getting g into the pit After Alter frost has made a frozen coat over the pit take a pick and cut a hole large enough to put your hand in so as to reach the vegetables when you are ready to use them This hole should be bc filled with a burlap sack and covered with a piece of roofing rooting Vegetables stored in this manner should keep well wen all an winter |