. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. TOMATO. EGGPLANT. PEPPER 137 four feet high (higher, if desired), or supported on high wire or wooden trellises, or on low A-shaped frames or racks, or on piles of brush placed beneath the vines—in fact, anything will answer that will keep them off the ground. (Where large areas of toma- toes are grown the vines are seldom supported.) Pinching off the tips of the main upper shoots when the plants on racks are about three feet high is prac-. SAME BACK YARD AFTER GROWING FLOWERS, V
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. TOMATO. EGGPLANT. PEPPER 137 four feet high (higher, if desired), or supported on high wire or wooden trellises, or on low A-shaped frames or racks, or on piles of brush placed beneath the vines—in fact, anything will answer that will keep them off the ground. (Where large areas of toma- toes are grown the vines are seldom supported.) Pinching off the tips of the main upper shoots when the plants on racks are about three feet high is prac-. SAME BACK YARD AFTER GROWING FLOWERS, VINES AND A HIGH SCREEN OF TOMATOES tised by a few gardeners, who claim that it "makes the fruit earlier and finer"'; some others train the vines to long stakes and regularly pinch off the side shoots; many others do no pruning of any kind. Varieties of tomatoes : Earliana, Atlantic Prize, Chalk's Early Jewel, Matchless, etc., are well-known early red kinds, the first-named being especially early, I find. Stone, Acme, Perfection, Jersey Red, Match- less, Beauty, etc., are good main-crop varieties. To- mato varieties soon "run out" and new kinds are constantly being introduced; so names change. 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 resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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