12 GARDEN PROFITS 



a half feet, left it to dry out for two days and then 

 battered down the hard lumps and secured a fair 

 seed-bed. I dug in the cinders from two tons of 

 hard coal, and a large load of well-rotted leaf mold. 

 Our planting time is three to four weeks later than 

 it is in the Eastern states. I planted my sweet 

 peas about the first of May, and the other seeds in 

 season. 



"Around the entire plot I planted a row of large 

 Russian sunflowers. Next to these and one foot 

 away I had previously dropped a row of sweet peas. 

 In the centre of the plot were two clumps of runner 

 beans and around each clump were several clumps 

 of sweet peas. Then, without regard to the arrange- 

 ment, I transplanted here and there tomatoes, 

 pansies, stocks, petunias, verbenas, etc., allowing 

 them morning sun and afternoon shade, according 

 to requirement. Nothing failed. I trained every- 

 thing upward, using tall stakes and twine for support. 

 During the first week in September I had 19 Earli- 

 ana tomato plants 6 feet high; 6 Plum tomato plants 

 7 feet high (all with luscious bunches of ripe fruit); 

 sweet peas, 12 feet high; runner beans nearly 20 

 feet long, running criss-cross overhead with great 

 clusters of pods; cucumber vines climbing upward 

 and fully fruited, 8 feet high; and the greatest 

 profusion of flowers, which seemed to thrive in the 

 shade of the taller vegetation, all surrounded by 

 the sunflowers, some of which measured 16 feet to 

 the flower. From the 19 Earliana tomato plants 

 up to September 23, when the first hard frost came, 

 I plucked 250 pounds of fruit of a superb quality. 



