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A Woman's Vegetable Garden in 

 a New Hampshire Camp 



OUR summer home on a lake in New Hampshire 

 was first termed a "camp," but we soon 

 found the surrounding pines and birches needed 

 relief by a patch of green lawn. From success in 

 growing this we evolved the vegetable garden, the 

 gardener being myself, a city-bred woman, fifty years 

 old, with no experience whatever. 



The spot selected for this garden was necessarily 

 in a deserted pasture full of granite rocks which 

 could be removed. The fringe of pines along the 

 lake on the north and east formed a shield from 

 cold winds, and, by breaking the direct rays of the 

 early sun, would permit me to work late, as well as 

 early, on summer mornings. The water tank that 

 supplied the camp with water was near this spot. 



October found two neighboring plowboys, with 

 two horses, a plow, dragging chains and crowbars, 

 hard at work. After the surface stones were 

 dragged aside, the plow outlined a space averaging 

 seventy-five by thirty-two feet. The sod was 

 turned and left to the action of the frost and snow 

 until about April fifteenth, when it was plowed 

 four times lengthwise; and each time I followed 

 in the furrow. As often as the plow grazed a 

 stone, the crowbar was planted near the offender, 

 and by working, wedging and burrowing a space 

 was made, the chains were adjusted and each stone 

 was hauled out by the horses. To complete the 

 work the plow was turned crosswise. Out of this 

 little space was taken stone sufficient to build a 

 wall two feet thick and two and a half feet high 

 around the plowed space, with the exception of a 

 rustic gate at the south end and a turn-stile between 

 two small white pines at the north end. A cluster 

 of white birches shaded a rough stone seat midway 

 of the western wall. On the east, the curving 

 road, leading to the camp, was outlined by the wall, 

 making the garden space irregular but symmetrical. 



In New Hampshire it is the custom to plow 

 around the rocks. To cultivate little but to do that 

 little thoroughly, is a thing they need to learn. 



My plowing was completed amid the jeering of 

 the experienced plowboys, but each in turn privately 

 applied for the position of gardener. But I 

 could hardly wait to see the plowboys and horses 

 disappear over the hill toward their home before 

 I took from its hiding place my bright new spade. 



I began what it took me four days to complete. 

 I spaded the entire garden space — "spade deep" 

 — and removed every stone the size of my fist, 

 and many that were larger. Into this space were 

 deposited two cords of manure (at eight dollars a 

 cord) — which had been hauled from a point 

 five miles distant. This the plow boys again 

 spread for me and harrowed it in well. 



I proceeded with rakes to pulverize the soil and 

 then to lay out the garden. I used my tennis- 

 court roller to mark a two-foot-wide path around 

 the entire garden, following the irregularities of 

 the wall and about eighteen inches from it. Between 

 this walk and the wall, and close to the wall, I 

 planted at intervals the dwarf and climbing nas- 

 turtiums, scarlet runner bean, wild cucumber, 

 morning glory, kudzu and gourd vines which 

 combined made a mass of glory over the stone 

 wall all summer. 



Nearer the path I planted at intervals bachelor 

 buttons, mignonette, calendula, poppies, holly- 

 hocks, and near the rustic gate were massed sun- 

 flowers and golden glow. Just here, had I been 

 acquainted with The Garden Magazine and 

 had the April, 1909, number with its table for 

 planting, I should have wasted less time. But I 

 passed many hours figuring on the place, the dis- 

 tance and, especially, the depth of my sowings. 

 I remembered having heard that a seed — 

 "Sowed four times its length, 

 Paid for in strength." 

 So on that principle I worked, using, in the hills 

 and drills as I sowed, a good powdered fertilizer. 



Beginning near the turnstile, that the small 

 vegetables might be easy of access, I spaced rows 

 eighteen inches apart and then skipped to midway 

 of the garden and prepared a drill for peas which 

 I sowed at once and left space for successive 

 sowings. 



Then back to the spaces near the turnstile I 

 hurried and planted in turn, in rows across the 

 garden, onion sets, onion seeds, radishes, Black 



