. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS 63. A Garden of less than fifty square rods that yielded $ or at therate of about $ per acre. $ FROM 281/2 SQUARE RODS. From Roy Steward, Horton, Kansas. We started hauling to market April 18fh, and have not missed having goods to supply our three trips a week run all through this dry season. The early bunch beets were just fine. We had the Detroit Dark Red, and they came nearer being drought re- sistent than anything else we had. Our early beans made fine bushes and blo
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS 63. A Garden of less than fifty square rods that yielded $ or at therate of about $ per acre. $ FROM 281/2 SQUARE RODS. From Roy Steward, Horton, Kansas. We started hauling to market April 18fh, and have not missed having goods to supply our three trips a week run all through this dry season. The early bunch beets were just fine. We had the Detroit Dark Red, and they came nearer being drought re- sistent than anything else we had. Our early beans made fine bushes and bloomed a great deal, but it was too dry for them to set, so they were a failure. The early cabbage, we had a tine prospect, but it only made one- half pound to two pounds to the head. They sold here at 4c per lb. at wholesale which helped out some. I bought some of 3'our Surehead late cabbage seed and followed the plans laid out in the catalog. Just dropped the seed in hills and then thinned to a stand. They had an awful summer, but those little plants went through it all and never even wilted. We just kept the weeds out and cultivated to keep the ground moist and when we got the late rains they started. We are cutting them now, and there are just lots of them that weigh from five to eight pounds per head, at 3c per lb. looks good to me. People around here that transplanted their cabbage don't have much. 1 will send you a snap shot of this cab- bage patch. We have never wat- ered or sprinkled anything, we de- pended entirely on thorough cul- tivation. In all our gardening we never had such tomatoes. We have a plot of 28'/2 square rods. On this, we grew radishes and lettuce in the spring. Then we manured and plowed deep and set the tomatoes. They grew well through all the dry weather until the late rains arrived, and then they set on fruit in a way that paid us well for all the trouble we had. The radishes sold for $ and the lettuce $ We have sold $ from this small
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