150 A HOME VEGETABLE-GARDEN 



leaf 40" tobacco extract for plant-lice. Spraying 

 with bordeaux mixture is effective against cu- 

 cumber diseases. 



Every garden must make room for cucumbers, 

 even in the city. The average kind of soil, if it 

 is in the best possible condition, will give good 

 results. The best English cucumbers are always 

 grown in the limited space of the forcing-house. 

 We might try growing them along the line fence 

 or on a wire trellis over the old barn. Get seeds 

 of the Japanese climbing variety. Like the wild 

 cucumber vine, let this climbing variety cover 

 some unsightly place with beauty and fragrance 

 and at the same time provide fresh cool salad. 

 Be sure of plenty of sunlight. The Japanese cu- 

 cumber is especially adapted to dry weather. 

 Give the plants every care at first. Start them 

 just like any cucumber. Feed them nitrate until 

 vigorous growth is assured. When they begin 

 to climb, stir some mixed fertilizer into the soil 

 about the hills. Give them continual surface 

 tillage and protect them from their foes, and even 

 in the limited space so precious to the city folks, 

 cucumbers may richly pay. There is plenty of 

 room, of course, in the country garden. The gar- 

 den vines should all be grown near by, in one wide 

 strip at the side of the garden. Then the running 

 vines will be out of the way. They may be used 

 as a companion crop with various other vegetables. 

 Any plant that matures before the vines need 



