. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 56 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS. 540 POUNDS OF TOMATOES FROM 20 PLANTS. From James C. Shield, Monticello, Ills. , , r ,, in My garden is about half an acre. I raised nearly every kind of vegetables. 1 will mail under separate cover a drawing of my garden showing how it was planted and how much I raised of each kind of vegetable. First 1 sowed my onions, carrots, par- snips, beets, spinach, peas, corn salad; and then planted onion sets, cabbage, onions, beets and kohl rabi that had been started in hot-beds. My best cr
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 56 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS. 540 POUNDS OF TOMATOES FROM 20 PLANTS. From James C. Shield, Monticello, Ills. , , r ,, in My garden is about half an acre. I raised nearly every kind of vegetables. 1 will mail under separate cover a drawing of my garden showing how it was planted and how much I raised of each kind of vegetable. First 1 sowed my onions, carrots, par- snips, beets, spinach, peas, corn salad; and then planted onion sets, cabbage, onions, beets and kohl rabi that had been started in hot-beds. My best crop was tomatoes. I grew four varieties on a trellis. The following speaks for itself: Early June was easily first, 20 plants, 540 lbs. New Stone, 20 plants, 495 lbs. Tall Champion, 20 plants, 433 lbs. Table Queen 416 lbs. My late celery is A Beautiful Half Acre Garden which yielded over $ worth of Vegetables. ^\^^ ^ j j ^^„ Notice how clean it is. Not a weed in sight. ^ ^^^^^^ ^ I ^ -^^^^^^ deep and put about four inches of manure in the bottom and spaded it under two weeks before planting my celery. Then 1 planted a double row celery in the trench, planting alternately. When the plants grew enough to require soil around them, I threw the soil in around the plants without getting soil in the hearts, which rots the plants. Last fall, I cleared every small weed out of the strawberry bed, gave it addressing of manure, worked it a little. When the ground was frozen I mulched it with straw. In the spring I took the straw off the tops of the plants but left it in between to keep the berries clean. Then I took wood ashes and mixed them with bone meal and top dressed the plants with this mixture where 1 had taken the straw off and let the rain wash it in. From six rows of strawberry plants 200 feet long, planted the previous spring, I picked $ worth of fruit. Melons were a very good crop but season was short owing to dry weather. The best amongst my muskmelons was Field's
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