94 PRIZE GARDENING 



of the top, stick a pin through and there the bag 

 remains until the grapes are ripe. I intended to make 

 some mushn bags this year, but did not get it done in 

 time. The grapes should be bagged when they are 

 about the size of small shot, but later will do. The 

 larger they are the more trouble it is to bag them. 



I never bank up my celery ; late in the season I 

 prop twelve-inch boards outside the whole bed. My 

 bed is one mass of plants, and if the ground is rich 

 and they are given enough water the celery is fine; 

 but these two things are absolutely necessary. When 

 freezing weather comes I dig up my plants, leaving 

 some earth around the roots, and take them to my 

 cellar, where I have a room closed off from the rest 

 of the cellar with a window opening under the porch. 

 This window I open or close, according to the weather, 

 and being under the porch it does not let in much light. 

 The plants I stand upon the floor and cover the roots 

 with about three inches of sand. The sand is kept in 

 place by pieces of scantling placed on the floor. I 

 make the beds about one and one-half feet wide with 

 a passageway between each bed. This sand I always 

 keep moist. It is important to moisten only the roots, 

 if water is poured on the stalks and leaves they will 

 rot. I have a pipe with a wide opening at the top like 

 a funnel, this I push down to the roots and pour water 

 through it. My celery is accessible all winter, in the 

 worst of weather, and it keeps on growing ; of course 

 the room is dark and it bleaches nicely. I avoid all 

 heavy work of trucking and banking up, and raise 

 more than twice as much celery on the same ground, 

 so of course can afford to make the ground very rich. 



I have trouble making my lima beans climbs up the 

 poles. One of my neighbors tells me I planted in the 

 wrong sign of the moon. All I can say is, I will get 

 them up the pole in spite of all the moons discovered 



