Mid-Season Vegetables 



Corn is very easily transplanted so that where 

 there is a failure of the corn to germinate in some 

 hills and an over supply in others, the extra plants 

 may be lifted carefully with the spade or trowel 

 and slipped into holes prepared for them where 

 wanted. Last season I had an interesting ex- 

 perience transplanting an entire row of corn, 

 over a foot high. A row of okra had been 

 planted across the garden but failed to ap- 

 pear on schedule time and was finally given up 

 and corn planted in its place; the corn came 

 up and had made several inches of top when 

 to my surprise the okra appeared. It was evi- 

 dent that the two robust plants could not occupy 

 successfully the same ground and I did not wish 

 to sacrifice either, so an equal number of hills 

 were prepared in another part of the garden, fer- 

 tilized with poultry droppings and ashes and 

 the hills of corn, then over a foot high, lifted, 

 one hill at a time, on a spade and carried and 

 slipped into their holes, and not a plant seemed 

 aware that anything had happened to it; cer- 

 tainlj'" there was no check to the growth, but, by 



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