. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 82 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS SHE USES THE IRON AGE DRILL AND WHEEL HOE. From Mrs. Harvey Griffith, Milledgeville, Illinois. A few years ago my garden was a yard. It had been cultivated for two years, so the soil was in ideal condition for a good garden crop. I do not grow vegetables for market, but want an abundance for home use and just sell the surplus. My early cabbage, leltuce, radishes, onions and peas were grown in a corner of the yard. They only did fairly well. The dry weatSer injured l-iem. The piece
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 82 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS SHE USES THE IRON AGE DRILL AND WHEEL HOE. From Mrs. Harvey Griffith, Milledgeville, Illinois. A few years ago my garden was a yard. It had been cultivated for two years, so the soil was in ideal condition for a good garden crop. I do not grow vegetables for market, but want an abundance for home use and just sell the surplus. My early cabbage, leltuce, radishes, onions and peas were grown in a corner of the yard. They only did fairly well. The dry weatSer injured l-iem. The piece of ground for my garden pro^^r is a'_o_t e-ghty-five feet long and thirty feet wide. I planted everything in long rows, and used a small garden plow, that boon to women gardeners for cultivating. I had one row of toma- toes, one row of bush beans, peppers and egg plant. One row of pole , one row of pole beans, one row beets, four rows of late cab- bage, a row of cucum- bers and three rows of Golden Bantam sweet corn. Then I had a corner about seventy-five feet square planted to watermelons, muskmelons, pumpkins and squashes, and one short row of parsnips made the whole of my garden. And such a garden. Sweet corn ready for the table the last of June. Some of the early kind planted July tenth made fine roasting ears as late as October fourteenth. The tomatoes, peppers and egg plants yielded more than we could use and some were sold. 1 also sold about a bushel of cucumbers. Some of the peppers were four inches in diameter, and one egg plant was eighteen and one-half inches around. The watermelons and muskmelons were fair and the squash and pumpkins extra good. I have almost a wagon load of the two together. The bush beans were rather poor, but the limas were good. I have about a peck of shelled limas, and also about a peck of the pole beans shelled, after using ail we could before they got too old. The Kentucky Wonder, Missouri Wonder and Golden Cluster Wax beans were plant
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