A Garden Worth a Hundred Dollars— By Charles a. Hartley 



Pomeroy 

 Ohio 



A VILLAGE VEGETABLE GARDEN OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN ACRE — ILLUSTRATED BY 

 PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM THE SAME SPOT EVERY FORTNIGHT THROUGHOUT THE SEASON 





LAST year's garden was the most satis- 

 factory we have ever had. The area 

 was little more than one-third of an acre, 

 which was plowed by a colored man for $2.25. 



379. May 2. The beginnings of the garden. All 

 bare except a few beds in the foreground 



380. May 16. Two week later; the onions well 

 ahead. Pea stakes in. Lettuce coming ahead 



381. June 3. Things rushing. Beets between the 

 onion beds. Asparagus, beans, tomatoes in evidence 



Photographs by H. E. Feiger 



The dead weeds and other trash were re- 

 moved for $3, so that when the garden was 

 ready for planting the total investment 

 amounted to $5.25. The ground slightly 

 declines .from north to south and faces the 

 sun for a good many hours each day. 



By May 2d we had the garden well in 

 hand. 



On May 16th onions and radishes in the 

 foreground were large enough to stand up 

 and claim attention, while two long rows of 

 peas at the lower side are large enough to 

 demand sticking. This was done by stretch- 

 ing three light wires from stout posts and 

 weaving in dry horseweeds for pea stakes. 

 The lathing of the dilapidated chicken 

 yard in the distance of the first view has 

 disappeared! We tore it down, sawed 

 the lath into five-foot lengths, and made 

 bean supports from them. Two wires were 

 stretched from end to end of each row 



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383. How the garden is plotted. The dotted lines show 

 the range of the camera in taking the photographs 



and the laths fastened to the wires by means 

 of staples. The whole outfit cost an even 

 dollar. 



One and a half bushels of potatoes went in 

 at once in the same week with beans, sweet 

 corn, radishes, beets, lettuce, etc., followed 

 by five hundred sweet-potato plants, more 

 corn, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, 

 squashes, muskmelons, watermelons, etc. 

 The total outlay was about $10. 



Our best results came from early potatoes; 

 forty bushels from one and one-half bushels — 

 drilled in eight inches apart with one eye in a 

 piece. 



We sold $20 worth of products, which 



gave us $10 over the original cost. A care- 

 ful account of all the products sold, used, 

 given away, or put away for winter showed 

 our garden was worth $110 in actual cash. 



385. July 23. First dish of lima beans ready. The 

 picture is at close range 



386. July 23. Turnips sowed in the early onion beds. 

 Beets and peppers still thin 



387. July 23. The lower garden at its best. Corn, 

 cabbage, tomatoes, growing vigorously 



382. June 17. Potatoes in bloom. Tomatoes half wa 

 up the stakes. Lettuce, radish and onions in plenty 



384. July 2. Last of the first crops in the beds in the 388. October 11. Vegetables still ; turnips and beets 

 foreground. The full harvest just beginning elsewhere in the early onion beds ready to store for winter 



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