. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 50 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS PRIZETAKER ONION BEST. From Mrs. S. E. Dexter, Ballagh, Nebraska. I could not find any way to take any pictures of my garden, but am sending you my letter and description of my garden anyway. I have about one-half acre in my vegetable garden and a flower bed about 18 feet square. This year I had a fine patch of string beans. They grew so rank and bore so many beans on each vme. I plant my garden in rows far enough apart so they can be cultivated with a two horse cultivator, and then 1
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 50 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS PRIZETAKER ONION BEST. From Mrs. S. E. Dexter, Ballagh, Nebraska. I could not find any way to take any pictures of my garden, but am sending you my letter and description of my garden anyway. I have about one-half acre in my vegetable garden and a flower bed about 18 feet square. This year I had a fine patch of string beans. They grew so rank and bore so many beans on each vme. I plant my garden in rows far enough apart so they can be cultivated with a two horse cultivator, and then 1 hand hoe it all after the cultivator has been over it. I hoe it over two • or three times so as to keep the ground loose and mellow. I like the Prizetaker onion the best of all. They grow the best for me. Pumpkins are so good paying crop for me. 1 like the Big Tom pumpkin, as it is good to feed milk cows. Our cows, when fed on them give richer and more milk. I raise vegetables for my own use in summer and to can for winter, as we are not where we can market them very handy. Mrs. S. E. Dexter, Ballagh, Nebraska. $ WO.^TH OF TOMATOES FROM A SMALL PATCH. From Mrs. Joe Ammann, Milan, Kans. My whole garden, early and late, covered about two-thirds of an acre. Both early and late garden was planted from seeds bought from you, and considering the drouth they all did very well, and some of it did exceptionally well. We have a pump close to the garden run by a gasoline engine, and we ditched the garden ourselves with a small plow and watered it when we p^~" '"' thought it needed it. The ' early garden did very well. The lettuce, your Hanson, was very fine, much went to waste. The peas and beans were cut short by the drouth, but furnished us enough for family use. I planted four quarts of onion sets and we used from them * continually after they had grown large enough for the table, and have dug one and one-half bushel for winter. The hot winds came in time to cut my cro
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