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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



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I set out the tomato plants in the same rows (never 

 mind if the plants are small), planting beside each 

 one a seed, of the giant Russian sunflower; for, 

 contrary to the prevailing opinion, I have found, 

 that tomatoes do better in the shade than in the 

 sun. The peas and beans as they grow will furnish 

 shade for the tender plants; when they have borne 

 their crops and are pulled up, a clear field is left for 

 the oncoming crop of tomatoes. Meantime the 

 sunflowers have developed and a sturdy stalk is 

 shooting up rapidly beside each tomato plant. 

 They now need support, and with inch wide strips 

 of cotton or other waste cloth I tie the tomato 

 plants to the sunflower stalks. Soon the broad 

 leaves of the sunflower are furnishing shade for 

 the tomatoes and the crop comes on apace. I give 

 the plants plenty of liquid manure (one cannot give 

 them too much) and keep them well trimmed from 

 suckers. 



When the green tomatoes are fine and large, I 

 pick them, wrap in paper, and lay them away in a 

 bureau drawer or dark closet where, in a few days, 

 they will ripen. There will be none of the black 

 rot or seamy fruit such as is developed when they 

 are sun ripened. 



New Hampshire. F. R. Strong. 



Spring Planting in the South 



THE proper time for sowing onion seed has now 

 arrived. Make the soil very rich, for the 

 faster the plants grow the better the quality of 

 the bulbs will be. Make the rows from twelve to 

 eighteen inches apart, and plant the onions four 

 to six inches apart in the row. 



Spring turnips, radishes, parsnips, carrots, beets, 

 and salsify may be planted now; also early corn. 



Risk a few watermelons and muskmelons, as 

 well as cucumbers, squashes and early beans about 

 the tenth of the month. 



Sow seed of cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce at 

 any time during the month. Pieces of Bermuda 

 grass may be planted now to make a lawn, or for 

 pasture for cattle and hogs. 



Put sweet potatoes in the hotbed in order to 

 have plants for setting out during April and May. 

 Do not be afraid of planting too many tubers. 



Sow seed of celery' and set out strawberry plants 

 at any time from now on. 



It will be safe for you to sow seed of tomato, 

 eggplant and pepper in the open ground toward, 

 the end of February-. 



Continue to plant white potatoes. Green cotton 

 seed is a good manure for this crop. Also plant 

 early millet and sorghum cane. 



Plant tuberoses now. 



Morning-glories are so well suited to the soil 

 and climate of the South that they grow like weeds, 

 although of course, like everything else, the better 

 cultivation they are given the better the flowers 

 will be that are produced. Prepare the soil and 

 plant as you would sweet peas, though not in such 

 quantity. Put the seeds from twelve to eighteen 

 inches apart in single rows. 



Begin planting during February in protected, 

 places in the Middle and Lower South. There 

 are many varieties to select from and all are pretty, 

 though the double sorts are preferable. Double 

 White Tassel is a beautiful fringed sort, and 

 Rochester produces single blue and white flowers of 

 extra size. Seed may also be obtained of white, rose, 

 dark red, light blue, and dark blue, each color in a 

 separate package. Mixed Japanese morning- 

 glories are very pretty having large flowers of many 

 colors, and the foliage, too, is variegated. The 

 leaves and flowers of the Brazilian morning- 

 glory are extra large; it is a rapid grower on good 

 soil. 



The moonflower is very similar to the morning- 

 glory, and requires about the same culture, but the 

 vine produces three to four times as much foliage 

 as the morning-glory vine, and is later in flowering. 

 This seed can also be sown now, in the Lower and 

 Middle South. Moonflowers can be grown from 

 cuttings, too, and these can be planted much later 

 than the seed. A great point in favor of both 

 morning-glories and moonflowers is that they are 

 very seldom troubled with insects. Dry weather 

 does not seem to hurt them, either. There are 

 five or six varieties of moonflowers. any of which 

 will give good results. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



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