Show 11 ilu I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tomato growing tomato growing Is 13 popular with gardeners gard erem but to grow this kind ol at fruit to perfection requires more mora skill than we generally suppose soils tor for tomatoes should be light and rich and should have good drainage the tomato especially in tho the moro mora northern northera part ot of the united states needs to bo be pushed forward as rapidly as io sible so that the growers may get the benefit of 0 the crop before frost comes on most ot of our northern farms hiring during the past two years there has been much complaint of tomatoes not rip ening it Is evident that it if the plants are grown on land that is cold on account of texture or lack ot of drainage there will be trouble of this nature the best time to transplant tomatoes Is m when hen they are arc six inches high it they are loft left in the hot beds till they have attained IL a height of two feet or more they do not bear trana tra na planting well and growth Is checked to an extent that seems to render void the start that had been made by growing them in a hot bed in facts fact when such plants are set out it Is not unusual to see sea volunteer plants that grow grew in the open soil bear fruit as soon as they though the hot bed plants had bad blossoms on them at time ot of setting out generally tomato plants are set bet about lour four leet feet each way and permitted to lie on the ground when the plantation Is swall and considerable it his attention can a given to each plant a good way xo 0 o 10 to lo is to plant thorn them about three feet apart each way and train the plants to single stems tying these stems to sta stakes ices this lets in tile the nun hun end and the tomatoes should ripen more fully and be of 0 better flavor than when allowed to ripen on the ground under the shade ol at the thick leaves it if it Is desired to avoid the trouble ot of hoeing out the weeds every lew few days old straw or other like material even grass front from the lawn may be placed around the vines this also acts as a mulch and keeps the moisture in the ground tor for the use ot of the plants this mulch will have to bo be added to from time to time as the weeds will make a desperate effort to push up through it in the care of I 1 green grass being used tor for a mul mulch ch this will he be particularly so BO as the grass decays very quickly on tho the whole however tho the ube ol of the mulch saves a great deal of at labor anil and la is therefore very satisfactory besides it allows the gardener to walk among tile the vines even alter after a heavy rain |