. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 10 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS NOT A LARGE GARDEN BUT A MIGHTY GOOD ONE. From Mrs. M. L. Hunt, Kokomo, Indiana, 1115 N. Morrison Street. I am sixty-four, my son busy ten hours (sometimes longer) every day, no money to spare for hired work, yet I was ambitious for a garden. So I selected and spaded most thoroughly a spot about 4x20 feet. A friend gave me some strawberry plants, enough for almost half the ground. Then May 12th 1 received one dozen Senators and three Early June tomato plants from you. These last, I had
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 10 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS NOT A LARGE GARDEN BUT A MIGHTY GOOD ONE. From Mrs. M. L. Hunt, Kokomo, Indiana, 1115 N. Morrison Street. I am sixty-four, my son busy ten hours (sometimes longer) every day, no money to spare for hired work, yet I was ambitious for a garden. So I selected and spaded most thoroughly a spot about 4x20 feet. A friend gave me some strawberry plants, enough for almost half the ground. Then May 12th 1 received one dozen Senators and three Early June tomato plants from you. These last, I had a place across the center of the plow, the strawberries at the other end. The full length of one side in Henderson's Bush Lima. On the other side, four hills of Princess Watermelon. For lack of space, the tomatoes were framed up pretty high. The season was hot and dry, but I had heard of dry farming, and kept hoeing and hoeing. Well, we enjoyed about a dozen delicious sweet little watermelons. They grew from six to nine inches in diameter. The vines were remarked about for their beauty. The tomatoes, we had from July 22nd until frost Oct. 23rd. We planted also a few Earliest in the World, but those three plants were our standby. We canned off of them and ate them every day. I also rounded one end of my plot and filled it with your poppies, forgot the name. I should have written in August when I could sit on the steps of the back porch and see these. The garden was little, but I can't tell all the good it did us. My strawberry plants spread over almost the whole plot, so I hope the best is yet to come . Mrs. M. L. Hunt, 1115 N. Morrison St., Kokomo, Indiana. PLENTY TO EAT FROM A THIRD ACRE. From Mrs. Jesse Crook, Nebraska City, Nebraska. There is about one-third of an acre in my garden plot. I planted all I could with a drill, and when about three inches high, I scattered manure from the hen house over all of it. When the first planting of radishes, spinach and lettuce were too
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