March, 1906 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



73 



get nearly a hundred carrots to use young, 

 that would otherwise have been destroyed, 

 and all without trespassing on the permanent 

 row. If you have never enjoyed the pleas- 

 ure of eating very young carrots, do not fail 

 to make the trial this year. 



Chard.— Cost of seed, two cents; length of 

 row, ten feet. A sowing on April ist gave us 

 greens by the middle of June and stalks a 

 week later. At the end of August, after the 

 crop was past, the roots were pulled out, as 

 the room was more valuable than its com- 

 pany. 



Lettuce. — Cost of seed, two cents; length of 

 row, ten feet. This gave us more than a hun- 

 dred plants. As soon as they reached trans- 

 plantable size, we set out sixty plants along 

 the Lima bean row, leaving forty in the 

 original row. This was rather crowded for a 

 io-foot row, but as -the first heads were gath- 

 ered while still quite small there was space 

 for the others to spread. Well-developed 

 heads were ready by June 16th from the 

 April 1 2th sowing. They were so tender 

 that they fell apart in the handling, and the 

 flavor and quality were excellent. 



Beets. — Cost of seed, two cents; length of 

 row, twenty feet. Sowed April 12th, and less 

 than two months later we were pulling young 

 roots the size of plums. These thinnings 

 were good eating and they left space for the 

 others to spread, as they attained full size, 

 during the month following. 



Corn. — Cost of seed, fifteen cents ; length of 

 row, thirty feet, early; seven hills, late. The 

 first planting, May 8th, came up so thickly 

 that we transplanted all that could be accom- 

 modated on another part of the grounds, and 

 still had a quantity of thinnings to feed to the 

 horse. The original row yielded seventy 

 ears and the transplanted hills about fifty 

 more. The bearing season lasted a month, 

 from the end of July to the end of August. 

 The late corn was sowed July ist, where the 

 potatoes had been taken out, and gave us two 

 dozen ears about the middle of September. 



Wax beans. — Cost of seed, five cents; 

 length of rows, forty feet. The early planting 

 was made May 20th, and was in bearing from 

 July 8th till past the middle of August, and 

 after that scatteringly till frost. The late 

 planting was made August 19th and, as bad 

 luck would have it, had just reached the 

 pickable stage when frost destroyed it. 



Bush Lima beans. — Cost of seed, one cent; 

 length of rows twenty feet. The cost of this 

 seed is not worth computing, as the plants 

 were thinnings from another part of the gar- 

 den and would have been destroyed had we 

 not transplanted them. 



rt k string beans. — Cost of seed , three cents ; 

 length of row, twelve feet. These did them- 

 selves credit. Sowed June 3d, they had 

 reached the top of a 6-foot trellis by the 

 middle of July and began to bear a week 

 later. They did not yield any large pickings 

 until the middle of August, but after that 

 covered themselves with glory, and on Sep- 

 tember 6th a picking of three hundred pods 

 — about four quarts — was made. After that 

 time they bore in small quantities until frost. 



Pole Lima beans. — Cost of seed eight cents; 



September 6. Corn thai was planted between the potato hills now in tassel. Tomatoes on the trellis 



October 7. The garden on the wane. Remnants of crops still yielding until frost comes 



November 13. 'i he end of the season. The summer crops replaced 



seeds 



