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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 19 12 



Stahied with Cabot's Stains 

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plant is kept concentrated on the crown bud. This 

 strengthens the blossoms in some way and causes 

 those early clusters to fruit, when under ordinary 

 conditions they would be barren. As soon as they 

 get top heavy at all, I set poles and train the single 

 vine up and around, tieing with bits of raffia. By 

 July 10th, we usually have ripe tomatoes to eat and 

 from then the supply is continuous until frost. 



With the tomato vines trained to poles it is 

 possible to keep up the cultivation and maintain a 

 dust mulch, so that there is no suffering from lack 

 of moisture, even in the dryest of seasons. It 

 sometimes happens, though, that I wish to plant in 

 ground that is deficient in humus. In that case I 

 supplement the ordinary water-holding capacity 

 by means of some old tin cans. These have their 

 bottoms punched full of holes, and are set into 

 the ground near the middle of the root system. In 

 that way no water is lost through evaporation, and 

 there is no tendency for the soil to bake up hard 

 around the plants after watering. Liquid manure 

 may also be applied in the same way, and to this 

 treatment I have had tomatoes respond wonder- 

 fully. 



Maine. John E. Taylor. 



Pumpkins and Winter Squash 



THIS is the month for planting pumpkins and 

 winter squash. Both should be more popular 

 in the South than they are. They furnish fruit from 

 July to frost with very little trouble or expense. 



Sow some gourd seed. The vine, as well as the 

 fruit, is quite ornamental. Do not plant the 

 pumpkins and squash close to the melon patch, 

 particularly if you expect to save some of the melons 

 for seed. 



Sow peanuts and chufas (or earth almonds) at 

 once if you have not already done so. 



Millet, sorghum cane and other similar forage 

 crops should be sown now. 



Plant another crop of white potatoes some time 

 during the month. Also okra up to June 15th. 



Continue setting out sweet potato plants. Last 

 year I had a crop of half a ton of potatoes from just 

 three rows thirty-five or forty yards long. This 

 season I am going to give better fertilizer and more 

 attention to cultivation, etc., and expect even a 

 larger yield. 



If you want to have some extra large specimens 

 of egg plants, tomatoes and peppers, give the plants 

 liquid manure. Be careful when applying it; if the 

 soil bakes hard around the plant it will do more 

 harm than good. Be sure that the plants get 

 plenty of fresh water. To get the largest fruits 

 plant Chinese Giant pepper, Ponderosa tomato, 

 and New York Improved egg plant. I have also 

 grown some Black Beauty egg plants weighing 

 over six pounds. That variety is a little earlier 

 than the New York Improved. 



Watch out for the black squash bug on the 

 watermelon vines. Hand picking is the only 

 successful method of getting rid of them. 



Sow cabbage seed now, in order to have cabbages 

 for use in the late summer and early fall. 



Continue to sow seed of edible cow peas, yard 

 long beans and lima beans. Fordhook and Wood's 

 Prolific (or Improved Henderson) are the most 

 prolific bush sorts, I find, for the South. 



Keep the cultivator going; don't let the grass 

 and weeds get large, and while you are busy in the 

 vegetable garden, do not neglect the flower beds, 

 for weeds and grass will grow there, too, and be 

 harmful to the plants. 



Georgia Thomas J. Steed. 



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