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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1910 



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A Sure Way to Have Sweet Peas 



I DOUBT if there is any garden annual in 

 which the percentage of failures is as high as 

 with sweet peas. For several years I planted them 

 only to have the crop an entire failure or to have a 

 few seeds germinate here and there which developed 

 into weak, spindly plants that succumbed to the 

 first hot, dry weather of summer. 



Recently, however, I have made them grow and 

 I attribute my success to very early planting and 

 to a carefully prepared seed bed. just as soon as 

 I can stick a spading fork into the ground, I pre- 

 pare my bed. Last year it was March ioth. I 

 planned for a row about thirty feet long but about 

 six feet of this came under the shadow of some 

 evergreens and was frozen as hard as a rock. It 

 would have taken dynamite to dislodge it. I 

 merely tell this to show how closely I followed on 

 the heels of winter. 



I first dug a trench about eight inches wide and 

 a foot deep where digging was possible. In the 

 bottom of this trench I placed some well-rotted 

 stable manure, a 4-inch layer of rotten bog hay, 



Be sure to cut your sweet peas every day or two, 

 or else they will go to seed and stop blooming 



and the moss that a nurseryman had sent me when 

 shipping some plants. I mixed the three ingre- 

 dients as thoroughly as possible and covered them 

 with a layer of earth which, as a matter of fact, 

 was mud. 



I then filled the trench to within four inches of 

 the surface with a mixture of mud, dry sand and coal 

 ashes. It was surprising how the sand and ashes 

 dried up the soft earth and made it possible to work. 

 The seed was planted in two rows about three 

 inches apart and perhaps an inch or less apart in the 

 rows. The planting was completed when I had 

 sifted a half-inch of layer soil and sand over the 

 seeds. This I gently packed down with a board 

 to be sure that the soil was in contact with the 

 seeds — an important point with any kind of plant- 

 ing. 



As soon as the tiny seedlings appeared I carefully 

 weeded the row and covered them with soil. I 

 repeated this process until I had filled the trench 

 level with the adjacent ground. The result was 

 a fine row of stocky plants, ready to withstand the 

 hot July suns, deeply rooted in material that would 

 hold the moisture. 



It may be claimed, and not without reason, that 

 all this trouble is unnecessary and that sweet peas 

 may be grown without it; but the same method 

 that may produce a fine result one year because of 



