VEGETABLE GARDENING 47 



Date: May 10 to 25. 



Varieties: Stone, E. June, Ponderosa, Ear liana. Other good va- 

 rieties Acme, Globe, Favorite, Bonny Best. It is usually 

 cheaper to buy plants from a reliable seedsman, where only 

 a few dozen are needed. Plants should be stocky, and six 

 to ten inches high. 



Number of Plants: To fill bed of "First Planting" will require 

 twenty-seven plants see Plat on preceding page. Order 

 three dozen plants, and heel out the surplus for filling va- 

 cancies. 



Water and shade for a few days. If frosts threaten, bend the 

 plants down gently and cover with earth three inches deep. Un- 

 cover when danger of frost is over. 



If plants are very long and slender, dig a trench three inches 

 deep in any direction from where plant is to stand. Plant roots 

 in trench, then bend down the stalk and cover with soil so that 

 four inches of the top will come to the point where plant is to 

 stand. It will take root where covered, and thus gain increased 

 vigor. 



When "First Planting" of vegetables are matured, remove and 

 rake the soil mellow. 



When plants are a foot high, set a stake six feet high, firmly 

 by each plant, and as plant grows tie loosely to stake. Prune by 

 removing slender, weak shoots. When plant reaches top of stake, 

 top by pinching out terminal bud. Tomato plants are set where 

 indicated by T in plan, "First Planting" is allowed to remain 

 until matured. 



