. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 60 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS CAULIFLOWER PAID WELL IN SOUTH DAKOTA. From Charlotte Everlein, Aurora, South Dakota. Will write and tell all about the sowing, planting, cultivation and plans of my garden. The garden is south of the house and slopes toward the south, and the west side is bordered by an orchard. The garden is eighty feet wide and a hundred feet long. The beds run the full length of the garden, and for the herbs and small vegetables, the beds are ten feet square with an eighteen-inch path between the b
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 60 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS CAULIFLOWER PAID WELL IN SOUTH DAKOTA. From Charlotte Everlein, Aurora, South Dakota. Will write and tell all about the sowing, planting, cultivation and plans of my garden. The garden is south of the house and slopes toward the south, and the west side is bordered by an orchard. The garden is eighty feet wide and a hundred feet long. The beds run the full length of the garden, and for the herbs and small vegetables, the beds are ten feet square with an eighteen-inch path between the beds. First, the soil was fertilized in the fall and spring. Then it was harrowed and plowed in the spring and harrowed with a small harrow four times and then with a hand rake. It was raked until it was perfect and smooth. The flowers were sowed and planted m the front of the garden in a park-like way. Then the vegetables were sowed and planted as follows: Rutabages were sowed in rows eighteen inches apart and thinned out to about six inches. The turnips and carrots were sowed the same way. The celery, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and cauliflower were sowed in a hot- bed in March and transplanted in May. The celery was transplanted in a trench. First we dug a trench eight inches wide and twelve inches deep, then two makes of fer- tilizers were put in, then two inches of the fine and heavy soil was put in the trench, then the celery was planted and watered and shaded for two days. Then as the celery grew, the soil which was dug out of the trench was placed back, and then if the. Some mighty fine cabbage. celery grew higher than the trench, the ground was hilled up. Tomatoes were planted in a row three feet both ways, and the cabbage was planted in rows two feet both ways, and cauliflower and peppers planted eighteen inches apart. Cucum- bers were sowed in hills four feet apart both ways. In May, watermelons and muskmelons were sowed in hills six feet apart. Onions were sowed in a
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