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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1914 



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"A Thing of beauty is a joy for-, 

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Which, Early or Late Crops? 



THE average man with a vegetable garden pro- 

 ducing more than is necessary for his own fam- 

 ily, naturally wants to dispose profitably of some 

 of his produce. And as a rule his grocer is glad to 

 exchange staple articles for fresh vegetables. In this 

 way a small amount of money can be realized each 

 year. But the average man seldom thinks of what 

 he might make if he were to study the needs of his 

 local market. He thinks that he has accomplished 

 his labors if he has brought all of his plants into 

 vigorous growth and heavy bearing. But the market 

 end of the gardening business is all important. 



On which, then, can the man with a small garden 

 make more — early or late crops? In my own ex- 

 perience I have found that the answer depends on 

 the kinds of crops to be grown. There is always a 

 good market for some early fruits and vegetables, 

 whereas others receive higher prices when they 

 come into the market late. As a general rule, very 

 late crops are the more profitable; for not only do 

 they appear to the buyer to be unusual, but he 

 realizes that he may have to wait eight or nine 

 months before he can get the same product fresh 

 from the garden again. In the spring, when every 

 kind of plant is growing rapidly, there is a promise 

 of early and abundant crops of everything, and or- 

 dinary people will not buy the high-priced fruits 

 and vegetables then displayed for sale, preferring 

 to wait until the price comes down or until their own 

 gardens begin to bear. However, there are at 

 least two early crops that are money-makers. 

 These I have found to be tomatoes and green peas. 



By starting tomato plants in a small box; by 

 transplanting them into i-inch pots when they had 

 put out three leaves; by placing these pots in the 

 hotbed early in March; and by transplanting again 

 into 5-inch pots at the end of that month, I have 

 had the largest varieties of tomatoes on the verge 

 of blooming when I set the plants on May 3. These 

 big tomatoes ripened two or three weeks before 

 there were any others for sale. The largest 

 brought 5 cents apiece; the average sizes were 

 readily sold for $2 a bushel. From forty early 

 plants I sold $12 worth of early tomatoes; using 

 meanwhile all that were necessary for the table. 

 Tomatoes, therefore, when handled carefully pay 

 remarkably well as an early crop. 



Green peas belong in this same class. To bring 

 this crop two or three weeks ahead of the ordinary 

 market, I spade the ground in the fall, supplying 

 it then with a liberal quantity of manure. As early 

 in the spring as the top is dry, I rake it smooth and 

 plant my peas, planting two double rows four 

 inches apart. From two such rows I gathered eight 

 and a half bushels of peas (the rows were 65 feet 

 long), of which 7 bushels were sold at $1.40 a bushel. 

 Planting an extra late crop that developed in the 

 early part of August, I was surprised to find that 

 there was no sale for peas then. Probably corn and 

 lima beans appeal to people at that time as being 

 more seasonable. But early peas certainly pay; 

 as the vines are not injured by frosts, plant them 

 just as soon as the ground is fit to be trenched. 



I should like to recount my experience with two 

 other crops, both of "them late. One usually asso- 

 ciates string beans with the summer months, and 

 most gardeners take no trouble to grow a late crop. 

 But since this is one of the favorite vegetables, it is 

 reasonable to suppose that there would be a sale 

 for late beans. And there is, almost without excep- 

 tion. Moreover, string beans develop a fine growth 

 in the mellow days of autumn, and the yield is likely 

 to be heavy. From two short rows I have sold sev- 

 eral bushels of beans at $1.60 a bushel. They are, 

 of course, liable to be caught by frost; but that is 

 a danger to nearly every late crop except celery. 



In the home garden, late strawberries can be 

 made to pay well. During the present season there 

 was a time when I could get no more than four cents 

 a box for splendid Marshall and William Belt 

 berries ripening in mid-season; but for my Gandys, 

 Hunns, Samples, and Commonwealths I got 25 

 cents a box, and the demand was insistent. Early 

 berries have to compete with those grown in the 

 South; but late varieties have practically no out- 

 side, and very little local, competition. 



It is decidedly better to grow some crops late and 

 some early if the gardener expects not only to sup- 

 ply his family but also to clear a reasonable profit. 



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Your garden three 

 weeks earlier 



If you use Paper Pots 



Start your melons, sweet corn, lima 

 beans and cucumbers in paper pots now 

 indoors or under glass and when the 

 ground is warm set them out without 

 taking out of the pots, and they will be 

 ripe three to four weeks earlier. 



J. S. Waddle, of Romney, W. Va., writes: 

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B. C. Garman, of Birminghan, Ala., writes: 

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