Show A WOMANS WORK VEGETABLE jn in the GARDEN CARDEN 1 71 1 ft ia ii uy M EVA RYMAN GAILLARD M fresh vegetables fragrant flowers the glories of the garden nine really profitable vegetable gardens out ot of ten aro are made under the supervision of a woman it she does not do the actual work and the best beet gardens the writer wilfer ev r has ceeil seen wre wore both made and cared for from start to finish by women and for that reason the hints to follow bollow are given wita a womans comans garden in mind it would be impossible to urge the small garden and a close clode succession of crops too strongly and it Is being urged front from a full knowledge of what has been done and not from a mere theory make the sold rich enough and the rows of vegetables may be so BO close together that using wheel cultivators tiva tors and similar tools will not be possible the tops will quickly cover the soil and by shading it and preventing evaporation keep it cool and moist the useful plants will crowd out weeds or smother ero other them and the rich soil lot idt only provides for far quick tender growths as a first crop but insures the same name plentiful supply of plant food for the later plantings because a plain description ot of work done is the best wy way of giving help no apology la Is made for telling how bow a near neighbor gets more and finer vegetables from a garden not larger than twenty five by fifty feet than most gardeners get from three times that space her first work Is the preparation of the sail using a spading fork she digs a deep trench the length of the garden and fills in old thoroughly rotted manure bringing from the barnyard in wheelbarrow or cart to a depth of of several inches this done she digs another trench and throws the soil over fro from in other rows and what Is thrown from the first one Is used wherever needed around the place should a list of 0 vegetables eatables eg tables grown in this little gurden garden be given it would surely be called an all exaggeration if nothing worse by those who have bave never tested close cropping on soil eoll well supplied with the elements needed for quick production and made available by the underfeed method such soil preparation must be supplemented ted by a good selection of whatever vegetables are to be grown and a suggestion pug or two may help in choosing them for exam example ale let the first planting of peas include both early and late sorts and as soon as the early ones are arezone done producing freely plant more of the same sort and th alwy vy will be ready for use byl by the time the later variety Is gone the succession alon IZ Is more helpful to the cook who is probably the gardner is as well than more than she knows what to do with at one period and none later in the season lettuce may be sown every month from early spring until august and the product of different sowings bowings will supply young and tender leaves elk au the season sowing less at a time and oftener Is the best plan for the home garden radishes too are good repeaters but rarely do well during midsummer earl and late crops are more enjoyed because of the intervening time when they do not appear on the table babl e A few hills of cucumbers will furnish the table with early ones and the main crop for pickles can be sown later 1 in my own garden I 1 make the hills among the early potatoes and plant the seed before the potatoes are dug which gives them time to get started and be ready to vine as soon as the space Is cleared for them turnips may follow an earlier crop and the list might be continued indefinitely but the one general rule that quick growing early maturing varieties may be made to furnish a succession will help each to select for double cropping the vege vegetable tabled best liked by the family some kinds of seed roust must be started in a hotbed hot bed or in the house and be transplanted once or twice to get sturdy plants ready for the open garden and among these we have cabbage cauliflower tomato pepper and many others if however early crops tire are not aimed at these there may bo be sown in tho the open as soon eoon as the season of frosts Is over or a little before it caro care Is taken to protect them on oil suspiciously cool nights the time when outside sowing or trans transplanting planting may bo be done dona with safety cannot bo be given here tor for leav ing the difference in season out of the question the southernmost gardeners might be able to sow BOW and plant weeks earlier than those farther north but there Is and one thing that all regardless of location should do and that to la to take every precaution to secure good seeds it if really interested in having a good garden do not fall to get at least one good catalogue each year for knowing what in tile the way of improved varieties varl etlea or new productions means plain dollars and cents to the gardener as well as added in terest in the work when making out your order remember that while certain varieties of the different vegetables were the best possible to grow a tow few years ago they have been improved in many ways and search the catalogue for the last word concerning such euch improved varieties As an illustration A few years ago little was heard of chicory often called except as the roots were used no as a sub aub 1 statute for coffee a little later an improved type appeared which was valued for the fine leaves to be used as a salad plant under the name ot of endive and now we have it with leaves beautifully marked with pink and called abse rase striped chicory or orchid salad plant again the green kale has ben bell improved to the print point where becan wa can have it with the tha leaves marked with white pink on for uso use as a garnish another thing the catalogue does tor for the gardener t la to call attention to absolutely new things the department part ment of agriculture experimented with the japanese udo for a long time but the general public know knew nothing of it until it was listed in the catalogue with both cultural directions and recipes for serving improvements are not in unusual varieties alono alone but are const constantly dittly boing made in the commonest sorts the peppers of a generation ago were few in varieties while today they range from the tiny hot ones to those of giant that are so 80 meaty they may be 3 and fried and so 80 sweet they ai w when eaten raw craw or more vicious clous in an a pepper pepper sandwich the solid meaty few seeded tomatoes of at today are little like the watery ones of at a few years ago and so the improvements might bd ba followed through every class of vegetables and show either better quality earlier or later bearings or some other improved feature to influence the garde gardeners neros selection for few women take time and trouble to prepare a hotbed though it will servo a double purpose by being later on usable as a cold frame it Is well worth while to make one even though small and of the crudest description but it if none Is provided for be suro that a good supply of at tho the shallow boxes known as flats are ready for use in the house during the seed start ing season the boxes may be of any length and width convenient to handle or suited to the space that can be given them but a number of small ones are easier to manage than a few largo large jonesn ones some seeds are slower to germinate than others and need different condl 1 aiono of light and warmth and it but one or two similar varieties are in a flat fiat they can be moved to stronger light and a cooler place when the change would ruin the advanced ones to move these where it was too warm and not light enough would be ba to make them so BO spindling that no after care could overcome the defect the flats need not be over two inches or they may be three or tour four in the first case halt half an inch of drainage material under an inch of 0 very fine soil eoll gives a fine alne seed need bed the deper boxes with an inch of drainage under three inches of at soil make fine beds for the tiny seedlings when first drat transplanted these deeper ones once atao make good trays in which to set thumb pots it these theao aro are used as tile tho soil eoll sand or whatever is used around thorn them may bo be kept moist and no BO keep the soil in tile tho pots pota train from drying out by ova evaporation potation fill tho the hat flat dampen tho the soil coll press it down firm and smooth and set aside until tile the next day before sowing tile seed warmth preferably botwin bottom heat and a slightly moist bed are tile tho only essentials for seed seed gorin germination but as eoon boona as the little plant lets aro are developed they need plenty of light though not a hot sunlight until they got get stronger it if tile the plan plant tleta lets conio conic up badly crowded pull up a tow fow as aa crowding next to over watering Is the most common cause of damping oft off transplant as often no as Is necessary to keep tile tho plants strong and stocky until they can bo be planted out usually a couple of times linea Is sufficient but it if tho the seeds were sown very early or WEI tho season proves cold and backward a third shift my bo be needed but my word far it the final results will pay well tor for the trouble when the time comes to put the plants in the beds bo be suro sure that the soil la Is well raked free ot at lumps and stones mako the holes or trenches fill water into them and then net the plants with aspittle as little disturbance of the roots as possible firing bring the wet earth around the ball of at roots and then draw a mulch of dry soil over it the dry soil boll holds the moisture under it and when treated in this way the plants rarely need shading especially if the transplanting can bo be done to wards evening uy by tho the time it la Is safe to set the plants out the of bugs bug will be found ready and waiting tor for them tile tho experienced gardener 11 Is expecting them and has put in a supply ot of ammunition andaas and ahna the guns guna loaded ready for the tight light realizing rea lising that the ounce of prevention Is worth pounds of cure order a supply of insecticides with the seeds for there is absolutely sol no chance of 0 their not being needed it if striped beetles attack the cucumber and other vines and no other remedy Is at hand sprinkle the plants and the soil all around with pepper mixed with flour or fine dust it in ia a wiser plan to use the remedy b before e f 0 re the enemy appears when plants will i down without apparent cause examine tile the roots of at a few and see it blue or black aphis can be found if so make a strong tobacco tea and pour around th the plants until the soil la Is soaking wet to the depth of the longest root after a day or two make another examination and if found necessary give another dose of the tea cut worms are quickly located by tile tho work they do and are arc easily found by digging around the stalk ct at the injured plants the big greasy things are about the color of the soil boll but one looking for them trient will not miss them it if hunting and ami killing Is too tedious then soak tha ground with kerosene emulsion early rooming morning la Is the ibe best time to hunt them as they go deeper into the soil during the day when weeds have been ought fought all summer it Is ia poor policy to stop and let them run riot to fill t the h 0 soil with seeds to be foug fought it t the next year when the last table crop has matured and been used rake tile the soil level and sow cow peas turnips rye or anything that can be turned under in the spring and be a help to the soll soil any thing to crowd out weeds moisture to Is another consideration with the gardener but tho the soil tl that lat is well with fertilizer will withstand a dry spell that would ruin a poor dry one for or plants growing in it strike their roots deeply and so draw their supply from deeper down when the hot dry days ot of midsummer come stirring the surface soil frequently prevents evaporation and saves eaves the moisture in the soil for the plants grass clipping or similar stuff stud spread as a mulch will serve the rame purpose but it if the time comes when tile the applying of water Is positively necessary dont as you value the garden do any sh shallow ilow watering give each row a soaking or let it atone alone for the surface watering that calls the roots near to the top of the soil Is worse than none at all have plenty of tools and keep them all together it if regulation tools are not easy to work with think out same something that will be moro more so BO copyright 1913 shultz syndicate press |