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February, 1913 



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The Story of a Small Garden 



MY GARDEN is a door-yard garden in a city 

 suburb. The soil is light, it slopes a little 

 to the west, and is about 125 feet long and about 

 50 feet wide. My first or catch crop consists 

 chiefly of peas and beans; the former being planted 

 as soon as the season will permit, the latter follow- 

 ing as soon as their more tender nature will permit. 

 These, with other early plants, occupy the whole 

 area. The whole garden is under cultivation from 

 the start, and consequently there are no waiting 

 areas which have nothing to do but produce weeds. 



The garden is planned by setting stakes three and 

 one half feet apart on both ends and along both 

 sides. I.ines stretched across from each corres- 

 ponding stake lengthwise and widthwise at their 

 intersection will indicate where the hills for the 

 second or principal crop are to be. 



In the fall deep furrows are dug longitudinally, 

 in which are buried cornstalks, vines, weeds, sods, 

 and any vegetable or fertilizing material which 

 may be at hand. The furrows are then covered 

 slightly, and left in readiness to receive the dressing 

 and the seed in the spring. An easy, convenient 

 and immediate disposal is made of all vegetable 

 material in clearing up the garden in the fall. 



The ground is prepared for use early in the season. 

 Last year I planted peas on March 19th, and that 

 was considered a late spring. I have also planted 

 potatoes the last day of February. The stalks 

 and vines in the furrow seem, by drainage, to get 

 the land in readiness for planting earlier than 

 could otherwise be. 



The spaces between the furrows is virtually 

 fallow ground. It might be spaded up; I do noth- 

 ing with it except to go over it frequently with a 

 wheel cultivator which I have fitted with five teeth, 

 to stir the surface only and to provide a mulch of 

 loose earth which serves to retain the moisture. 

 The growing crops seem to stand a prolonged 

 drought better than when the whole garden is 

 plowed. The unused spaces between the furrows 

 of one year are brought into use the next, so that 

 really half the garden is cultivated each year. 



Lines stretched from side to side of the garden, 

 where they cross the furrows, indicate the places 

 reserved for hills for the later planting or suc- 

 cession plantings — corn, tomatoes, etc. Centrally 

 between the lines, or between the places for hills 

 thus reserved, I plant early peas and beans in hills, 

 or anything that does not require too long a time 

 to mature. This crop is what I call a catch crop, 

 and is clear gain, the chief crop being that which 

 is to come later. It is planted at intervals as de- 

 sired, and is making growth before the first crop 

 is removed, which should be as soon as it has 

 ceased bearing. 



After the removal of the vines of the first plant- 

 ing run the cultivator both ways, so as to kill the 

 weeds. Do this frequently. 



With this method of cultivation I have obtained 

 a third crop on that portion of the land which was 

 planted with American Wonder peas between hills 

 reserved for Golden Bantam corn which was 

 planted a liltle later, the peas being replaced by 

 stringless beans. The Golden Bantam corn in due 

 season maturing and the stalks being removed, 

 the section formerly occupied by the peas and the 

 corn is left wholly to the beans. 



As the successive plantings are made, tags are 

 placed upon the stakes, indicating the locality, area 

 and date of each planting. These remain in place 

 during the season to receive the date of the harvest 

 and such other notes as may be suggested. 



Massachusetts. George H. Allen. 



Tomatoes in a Dooryard Garden 



MY GARDEN is a small door-yard one, no 

 larger than those of my neighbors. Last 

 year, while they had room for only six or twelve 

 tomato plants, I had space for 120 and got an 

 immense crop of fruit from July until October, 

 in addition to a fine lot of sunflowers, the seeds 

 of which I fed to my chickens. 



I start the seed indoors in boxes in February and 

 find I got the best results from Ponderosa and 

 Earliana, a ten-cent package of seed being sufficient 

 for my needs. I use a rich loam, which costs me 

 about fifty cents a bushel from one of our local 

 nurserymen. When planting early peas and beans, 



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