. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 136 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOI 1 youf set about three feet apart in the row. Or, if want a high, thick fence or screen (as shown in the back-yard picture on next page), the plants may be. A BARE TOWN BACK ^ARD. AND—AFTER (SEE NEXT PICTUREj set about two feet apart and trained up on a six- foot-high netting or trellis. Large fields are some- times set 4x4 feet (2,722 plants to the acre) and cultivated both ways. A light, loamy soil is best for early tomatoes. A picture on page 138
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 136 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOI 1 youf set about three feet apart in the row. Or, if want a high, thick fence or screen (as shown in the back-yard picture on next page), the plants may be. A BARE TOWN BACK ^ARD. AND—AFTER (SEE NEXT PICTUREj set about two feet apart and trained up on a six- foot-high netting or trellis. Large fields are some- times set 4x4 feet (2,722 plants to the acre) and cultivated both ways. A light, loamy soil is best for early tomatoes. A picture on page 138 shows a gardener applying fertilizer to hills in furrows; a little rotted stable manure has previously been placed where each hill or plant is to be. This gar- dener afterward sets the plants over each enriched hill (his helper with a hoe first mixes soil with the hill of fertilizer and manure, puts more soil on top, and makes an opening for the plant). After each plant is set the soil is firmly trodden around it with the feet; the furrow, between hills, is either filled with the hoe as the planting progresses, or the filling is done by cultivating crosswise after the entire field is set. The after cultivation should be thorough and regular. When the vines are large enough to need support they should be tied loosely to stakes about. 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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