Category: Horticulture

L. C. Seal of Indiana discusses bean growing as follows : ” Did your young bean vines ever promise well, then suddenly yellow up and, perhaps, die, and you could not account for it? Maybe you hoed them one time when their foliage was wet. You should not have done so. Never touch snap beans […]

“House-raised plants are never so thrifty as those raised in hotbeds and cold frames.’ In the latter the growth is quicker, more uniform and the process of hardening off can be begun, as it should be, a month after the plants have made their appearance. Cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers, egg-plants, and onions go into the hotbed; […]

“Don’t wait till the last minute to plan the garden. Plan to get two crops, where possible, in one season. In the onion bed and between the early beets plant parsnips and salsify. They will not interfere with each other at all. If the corn is checked, bush limas may be planted one way of […]

“During the last seven years I have been engaged in vegetable gardening near Columbus, Ohio, in which city all the produce has been marketed,” writes Prof. V. H. Davis. ” All the principal vegetables have been grown with more or less success, but we have always followed the plan of making a specialty of two […]

“Truckers say that after seed is sown we should either roll, slap, or tramp the ground,” says Mrs. Preston Kuntz of Pennsylvania. ” I never do that This method should be used only on dry and sandy soil. I gently pat with my hand or the hoe; this is sufficient to settle the ground. If […]

Mrs. H. M. Woodward of Illinois writes of her profitable garden as follows : ” Our plot of ground is 150 x 165 feet, and we have the use of another lot near by which is go x 165 feet. Nearly half of this lot is used as a chicken park, but we have several […]

The forcing of early vegetables has become a business of considerable magnitude, and a person may well ask, Does it pay, and, if so, can I hope to succeed? “My own work,” says E. E. Adams of Essex county, Ontario, ” has been growing for early market tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, beans, muskmelons, and sweet corn […]

“I also set 18 Shaffer Colossal raspberry bushes in the fall, that same year, bought direct from the nursery. This plant, being propagated from the tips, was new to me, and in buying in the fall the plants were small and the roots smaller, but I succeeded in having it come through the winter. Every […]

” As soon as planting is all done about one ounce of nitrate of soda is applied around each plant, care being exercised that none is put on the plants, for where it is so left it will burn them. When it is all on, the tooth cultivator is put on, and the ground cultivated […]

In no essential respect does the treatment of the blackberry differ from that of the raspberry. The plant is a more rampant grower and should have more room. It also needs more careful pruning and pinching to secure best results. Six to 8 feet is the usual distance at which rows are made and 2 […]