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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1913 



Winter Gardening 

 for Profit 



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A market gardener 

 who grows lettuce 

 extensively in cold 

 frames once re- 

 marked: "You see 

 those frames? Every 

 eight inches square 



of their space has six five-cent nickles in a little pile in the ground. I rake them 

 out each season." 



In the three-sash frame illustrated there are 54 sq. ft. or I2i| eight-inch squares 

 from which you can reap your own harvest of 729 "five-cent nickles." Lettuce grown 

 in cold frames is of better quality than if grown in the open. Radishes, beets, or 

 parsley may be planted between the rows of lettuce. Violets, pansies and mignonette 

 flourish abundantly in these cosey beds. Start Spring seedlings of tomatoes, cauli- 

 flower, asparagus, and sweet potatoes and have healthy plants for early setting-out. 



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can get muck; add this freely to your compost 

 pile, but add all the more lime. Never waste a 

 weed anywhere in the world, but especially in 

 Florida where the sandy soil has been burned over 

 annually and most of the humus destroyed. The 

 compost pile is an essential of good gardening in the 

 North, but more especially in Florida. Burn up 

 nothing that you can turn into soil; neither throw 

 it away. Save every inch of vegetation that Nature 

 gives you; and in two or three years you will have 

 made some splendid soil for your garden. 



Still more important is it to always have a 

 bountiful supply of water. Remember that winter 

 is our dry season, and we sometimes go without 

 rain for two or three weeks. Every home here 

 should have a good well (generally from fifty to 

 sixty feet in depth). Small lakes are very abun- 

 dant in the centre of the state, and it is well to 

 locate near one if you can. Most of these lakes 

 are surrounded with a large margin of muck, and 

 these are the best garden plots to be found. I 

 have installed an engine, with air-pressure tank, 

 in connection with my unfailing well. This serves 

 also in the place of two or three hired men about 

 the grounds and buildings. 



The rotation of crops is usually as follows: 

 Potatoes in January or February; melons in 

 February or March; sweet potatoes in May or 

 June; and corn a little after the potatoes. In the 

 winter garden we want things to commence grow- 

 ing very quickly, like radishes and lettuce and 

 several kinds of greens. The best of the latter for 

 this climate is the Chinese petsai, growing very 

 strong and rapidly, somewhat similar to Swiss 

 chard, but better than either chard or beets or 

 mustard. This lasts all through December, as do 

 turnips. For myself I grow a few roots of what 

 we call in the North scoke, and in any of the 

 orchards sorrel grows in huge bunches. These 

 together make greens hard to beat, and you can 

 have them almost as soon as you get settled in your 

 Southern home. 



Beets and cabbages are ready for Christmas, and 

 collards and cauliflower all through January. I 

 always give a large space to carrots; they need 

 early weeding but mature with great rapidity and 

 last for three or four months. Dwarf kale is 

 another of the very finest vegetables for Florida, 

 standing light frosts very well. Nor do I ever go 

 into the winter without providing a large supply of 

 onion sets; Little Bermudas or Yellow Danvers 

 take finely to our sandy soil and can be had all 

 winter. 



I am myself very fond of beans, especially string 

 beans, such as I have grown in New York (from 

 varieties of my own originating) but I do not get 

 them as fine in quality here as in my Northern 

 garden. I recommend the putting over of peas 

 and beans to the spring or summer garden; only 

 plant them early. Dwarf limas do far better 

 than any other sort that I have tried. Sometimes 

 they will be laden down with pods, but again they 

 will blossom profusely without perfecting pods. 

 Another thing to look out for is that much of 

 our soil is charged with root gall, and it is all 

 very much in need of lime. Peas and beans 

 will show very quickly if there is root gall pre- 

 sent, and you will find spinach and many of 

 the legumes will also stop growth. 



I have so far named no vegetables which will 

 not be right for a hurry garden, and for a stay that 

 will not exceed two or three months; but if you 

 are to stay five or six, you can add peas and beans, 

 eggplant especially, squashes, okra; and more 

 important yet, plenty of white potatoes. We do 

 not plant sweet potatoes until May or June; we 

 begin to dig them in September, taking them from 

 the ground as we need them. The white potato 

 we plant twice a year, generally a small supply in 

 our winter garden; and in January or February, 

 we do our field planting, for exporting to the North- 

 ern markets. We can grow just as good potatoes 

 and corn in Florida as in Missouri or Massachusetts. 

 Asparagus and pie plant will serve very well after 

 you have made some soil. 



We generally add to our garden a few cosmos 

 plants, which blossom very quickly, and a good 

 bunch of nasturtiums. These we grow so that we 

 can have the cut flowers from them on the dining 

 room table every day of the year and to remind us 

 during winter time of the cold and dreary North! 



Florida. E. P. Powell. 





