. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS 33 SOLD $ FROM A GARDEN 100x150 FT., BESIDES FEEDING FAMILY OF EIGHT. From J, D. Waddle, Romney, W. V. I want lo lell you what I raised on less than half acre garden, it being 100x150 feel. The location of my garden is a southeastern exposure, soil, sandy loam, clay base well drained. Fall of 1910 turned under a heavy crop of Crimson clover. About Dec. 15th the ground well with stable manure, used disk harrow early in March, 1911, plowed deep with single shovel, harrowed, ro
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS 33 SOLD $ FROM A GARDEN 100x150 FT., BESIDES FEEDING FAMILY OF EIGHT. From J, D. Waddle, Romney, W. V. I want lo lell you what I raised on less than half acre garden, it being 100x150 feel. The location of my garden is a southeastern exposure, soil, sandy loam, clay base well drained. Fall of 1910 turned under a heavy crop of Crimson clover. About Dec. 15th the ground well with stable manure, used disk harrow early in March, 1911, plowed deep with single shovel, harrowed, rolled and harrowed again. This gave me a perfect seed bed. About the 20th of March I planted Irish Cobbler potatoes, set our Early Express Cab- bage that had been wintered over in cold frame. At the same lime, set out Grand Rapid Lettuce and Eclipse beets between the rows of cabbage. The beets were sown in cold frame first of February. I do not recommend planting between rows where one has plenty of ground. It is a very poor way to raise crops, especially if the soil is not rich with plant food. Then again it makes cultivation more difficult. I advocate everything of a kind planted in straight rows across the garden. Smooth, medium sized potatoes were selected, cut half in two, and planted four inches deep. I prefer medium size tubers. I do not cut to one and two eyes because I think it highly essential to leave plenty of meat to furnish nutriment to the sprouts until they have taken root and can get food from the soil. The size of the seed piece is of much more importance than the number of eyes it contains. However, a piece should not contain less than two eyes. Planted Gradus and Thomas Laxton peas; it is hard to say which of the two I liked the best. Both are immense peas and as sweet as they can be. Planted Crimson Globe Radish, Hollow Crown parsnip, Giant Podded pole lima beans, Missouri Wonder pole L-x— Daisy muskmelon. Princess Watermelon, Early White Spine cucumber
Size: 1386px × 1803px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectvegetab, bookyear1912
