Morgan County News | 1941-05-09 | Page 5 | Tips to Gardeners

TIPS to gardeners GARDENS OF QUALITY THERE tr H E RE have been changes in recent e cent years in garden practices that are worth reporting gardeners formerly allowed vegetables to grow as large as possible this procedure gave a higher yield in pounds but very often it lowered the quality of vegetables some vegetables of course like tomato must be mature to be palatable but carrots cucumbers beets summer squash turnips radishes and others are more tender and tasty when not much more than half grown gardeners are finding that it is wise to plant oftener than once or twice a year to maintain a regular supply of proper sized vegetables gardens prove more enjoyable joy able and more profitable when successive plantings of favorite crops are made every two or three weeks providing garden fresh vegetables for the table over a long season it is also true that few garden ers today save flower seeds fine flowers growing in the home garden often are cross pollinated by others of the same species making flowers grown from their seed inferior and untrue