. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS 93. This solves tbe problem of—high cost of living ever we have lots of strawberries, "we eat all we can, and what we can't we can;" see! For strawberries are our favorite fruit, and I never ate any canned strawberries like my wife can can. Her s have almost Ihe exact fresh flavor and color. To return to my garden, I must say that it has been a great factor in cutting down our living expenses. On July I'oth, for dinner we had delicious fresh peas, carrots, young onions, radishes
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS 93. This solves tbe problem of—high cost of living ever we have lots of strawberries, "we eat all we can, and what we can't we can;" see! For strawberries are our favorite fruit, and I never ate any canned strawberries like my wife can can. Her s have almost Ihe exact fresh flavor and color. To return to my garden, I must say that it has been a great factor in cutting down our living expenses. On July I'oth, for dinner we had delicious fresh peas, carrots, young onions, radishes, cucumbers, and cabbage cold slaw, or salad—could have had more items, but surely that was enough for one meal. A FEW THINGS EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT ME. Success in gardening depends a great deal upon having good tools and in using them. One of the best tools I have ever used in the garden is the common, long handled, six-lined potato fork (with' round tines). For spading up old ground, for fining the soil, making it mellow, and for knocking the clods and turfs all to little bits of pieces. Cultivate your garden twice or three times where you water it once, and cul- tivate it again ^s quickly as you can after irrigating or after a rain. Prune your tomato plants and train them to stakes or between three stakes, set ihus . around the planis, tying strong strings around the outside of stakes to hold the plants inside the triangle. The early peas did the best for me, both for earliness nad heavy yield. I like the salsify (or oyster plant) but I can't get my folks educated up to it. They say it's too violent a stretch of the imagination to call it "oyster plant"—too much of a "fake, " but I have never yet come across a vegetable, properly prepared that I didn't Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly re
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