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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1918 



This photo was taken when the snow was on the ground. The lettuce turned 

 up smiling with leaves as crinkly and crisp as you could wish 



Winter Your Garden 

 In a Row of Our Cold Frames 



It is an Act of War Time Food Saving Sense 



YOU start it starting as early in August as 

 possible, by planting seeds in them exactly 

 like your outside garden. Keep well watered 

 and growth will be rapid. Not until the Jack 

 Frost nights, last of September, will the sash 

 need to be put on. 



During the days for several weeks more it can 

 be left off. When colder days come, keep it on 

 constantly. After October things won't grow 

 much, but right up to January you can keep 

 them in a healthy condition always ready for 

 your needs. 



Lettuce, Swiss chard, greens, carrots, beets, 

 parsley and the like thrive happily. 



Along in February, or first of March, you can 

 sow seeds for early vegetables and the growing 

 of plants for setting out. 



Truth to tell, not half the garden folks get half 

 out of their gardens they might, if frames were 

 used more. 



Order yours at once and get your winter garden 

 started. Our booklet No. 215 describes and 

 prices the different kinds and sizes, besides giving 

 full directions how to use them. 



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FOR THE SOUTr- 



Laying Plans for the Future 



TRANSPLANT celery plants from cold- 

 frame to open ground the end of July 

 or first of August. The method of 

 culture is given in August number of 

 Garden Magazine, 1916. 



Weeds should be kept from tne asparagus 

 bed and it should be heavily manured with 

 well rotted cow manure to feed the roots 

 and thus make large shoots for next spring. 

 Two parts cottonseed meal and one part acid 

 phosphate 16% makes a good fertilizer for 

 asparagus. Nitrate of soda is excellent if 

 procurable. Do not fertilize after this month. 

 Cut off the stalks in the fall before the seeds 

 mature and burn them to prevent the spread 

 of disease and insects. 



Sow now for winter use Bloodroot turnips 

 and Oxheart carrots, also the first sowing of 

 Savoy spinach at the end of the month, ar."i 

 turnips for greens in winter. 



Continue bi-weekly planting of snap bea, 

 and beets; the early varieties this mont. 

 Sow May King and Hanson lettuce and have 

 the soil heavily fertilized to hasten them to 

 maturity. These are good for fall use. Sow 

 seed of Big Boston or Way-Ahead to be trans- 

 planted later into cold-frames for winter use. 



Getting into Storage 



BRING the fall cabbages to maturity quickly 

 by frequent application of liquid manure 

 or nitrate of soda. Set out plants of Danish 

 Ball Head and Autumn King. These are 

 good keepers. Make the ground rich with 

 manure or commercial fertilizers to make 

 large heads and last of November they can 

 be stored in a kiln in the garden. 



Take up the onions for which seed were 

 sown in the spring to secure sets and store 

 in a cool, dry place to be planted out in 

 September to make large onions for spring. 



Butter beans gathered when the pods are 

 full and spread out to dry for winter use 

 have a better flavor than those left on the 

 vines until the pods are dry. 



All dried beans and peas, and seed of all 

 kinds should be treated with carbon bisul- 

 phide to destroy weevils — one pint to 100 

 pounds of seed is the correct proportion. 

 Pour the carbon bisulphide on the seed and 

 put immediately in tight receptacle. Be care- 

 ful not to have this near a light as carbon bi- 

 sulphide is very inflammable. 



Preservation of all food crops is most essen- 

 tial — brining, canning, drying and storing in 

 kilns are the various methods used. Drying 

 food takes up less space than the canned 

 products, and expense of the tin and glass 

 receptacles is eliminated; but it is not an 

 emergency method, for the food has to be 

 soaked in water over night before cooking. 

 Canning is more trouble in the beginning but 

 the food is ready to use after a few minutes, 

 heating. Storing the root crops is done in 

 the late fall. 



Preserving Fruits 



THERE are grapes, peaches, and plums 

 to be preserved in different ways for 

 winter use. Fruit preserved in the sun is 

 better in color and flavor than that which is 



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