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T HE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



Italian Marrow 

 English Marrow 

 Bk. Wax Beans 

 Bk. Valentine Beans . 

 Burpee's Bush Limas . 

 Golden Bantam Corn . 

 Stowell's Evergreen Corn 

 Alaska Peas . . . . 

 Gradus Peas . 

 Telephone Peas. 



Swiss Chard 



New Zealand Spinach 



Carrots 



Eclipse Beets . . . . 



Radish 



Onions 



1ST. Y. Lettuce . . . . 

 Romaine Lettuce . 

 Crystal Head Lettuce 

 Mignonette Lettuce . 



Tomatoes 



Turnips 



Cucumbers 



Parsley 

 Mint — Thyme 

 Sweet Marjoram 

 Sage — Peppergrass 

 Summer Savory 

 Sweet Balsam 



ployed for the sum- 

 mer months without 

 reference to the gar- 

 den, as his duties 

 were supposed to 

 cover only the stable 

 and care of the 

 grounds. For faith- 

 ful, intelligent, will- 

 ing workers let me 

 commend the Hamp- 

 ton boys during their 

 summer vacations. 

 They may be secured 

 for June, July, Au- 

 gust, and September. 



There are half a 

 dozen of them in our 

 town every summer, 

 always satisfactory, 

 and our Godwin was 

 no exception. To 

 give each boy a real interest, we prom- 

 ised them a quarter share apiece in the 

 gross profits, and the family agreed to 

 buy at the local market prices the entire 

 product. For our work and planning, for 

 supplying the seeds, fertilizer, tools and 

 paying for the plowing, my wife and I 

 were to have the other half of the gross 

 profits. 



In this Connecticut hill town 1,400 ft. 

 above sea level, the season is so short that 

 it is not considered worth while to attempt 

 any planting before the last week in May, 

 and there is sure to be a killing frost by 

 the first of October. The year of this 

 record the frost came on September 13th 

 and put the whole garden in mourning. 

 So it was not possible for this garden to 

 compete in its product of vegetables with 

 gardens in more favored places where 

 plantings could be made in March or 

 April either with seeds or from cold- 

 frames and a considerable succession 

 of plantings arranged for. We 

 spent a good many winter eve- 

 nings reading a little library 

 of interesting books about / ^ 

 gardens of various kinds. 

 We laid out the plan 

 of our garden after 



WHAT THE SUMMER GARDEN DID 



DURATION OF CROP 

 FIRST AND LAST PICKINGS 



29th 



25th 

 I Oth 



July 3ist-Sept. 16th 

 August pth-Sept. 29th 

 July isth-Aug. 26th 

 July I5th-Sept. 

 Sept. 15th 

 Aug. I2th-27th 

 Sept. 4th-25th 

 July nth-Aug. 

 July nth-25th 

 July 25th~Sept. 

 July ist-Sept. 28th 

 Aug. I3th-26th 

 July 25th-Sept. 28th 

 July 23d-Sept. 27th 

 July nth-22d 

 July 25th-Sept. 25th 

 July I5th~3ist 

 Aug. 4th-Sept. 14th 

 July I3th-Aug. 18th 

 July I9th-Aug. 2d 

 Aug. 28th-Sept. 28th 

 July nth-Sept. 8th 

 Aug. 5th-Sept. 6th 



July 23th Sept. 28th 



QUANTITY 

 GATHERED 



3° 

 36 



59 quarts 

 55 



3 

 11 dozen 



9 

 24 quarts 



8 " 

 14 " 

 38{ pecks 



ij " 

 31 dozen 

 I5i " 

 16 bunches 

 20 quarts 

 26 heads 

 37 

 82 " 



bunches 



All the cook 

 wanted 



CASH 

 VALUE 



4.50 

 5-4° 

 5-90 

 5.50 

 ■ 3° 

 2.65 

 i,35 

 3.00 



1-25 

 1 .60 

 1.82 

 2-59 

 5-74 



•49 

 1. 10 



.90 

 1 .60 



{ 



$70.24 



LENGTH OF 

 ROWS 



INCOME 

 PER FOOT 



13 cents 



16 " 



tive likings for the different vegetables 

 — after considering the promised yield 

 from each kind according to the amount 

 of ground planted, and with due consider- 

 ation to the possibility of successive plant- 

 ings of such things as the turnips, beans, 

 and peas. 



The first seeds were planted on May 

 24th. Along the upper edge we put in 

 English and Italian vegetable marrow 

 alternately in hills four feet apart, until 

 near the end of the row where five hills of 

 cucumbers were planted. When these big 

 leaved things grew up they were trained 

 over the rocks along this edge of the gar- 

 den, partly to make an ornamental border 



and partly to keep 

 them away from the 

 beans in row No. 1. 

 The other plantings 

 on May 24th were 

 the Black Wax 

 beans and Black 

 Valentine beans in 

 row No. 1, the 

 Eclipse beets and 

 bush lima beans in 

 row No. 2, Golden 

 B antam corn , 

 Stowell's Evergreen 

 corn, Alaska peas, 

 Gradus peas and 

 Swiss chard in rows 

 2, 3, 4, 5> 6, 7, and 8. 

 The corn was thickly 

 sown in rows four 

 feet apart to get a 

 larger yield than 

 planting in hills would give. The rows 

 of peas also were four feet apart to give 

 room for cultivating under the brush, but 

 all the other rows were only two feet 

 apart and we had very little trouble run- 

 ning the cultivator between them all 

 through the season. 



On May 25th we planted rows 20 to 31 

 with summer turnips, oxheart carrots, 

 scarlet horn carrots, yellow and white 

 onion sets, little lettuce plants, and parsley. 

 Parsley, by the way, is a most discouraging 

 enterprise. The seeds must be soaked for 

 several hours in tepid water, it is no 

 easy task to get them wet and they do 

 not come up for so long after they are 



35 feet 



35 " 

 60 " 

 60 " 

 30 " 

 60 " 

 60 " 

 60 " 

 3° " 

 30 " 



120 " 



15 " 



40 " 



60 " 



3° " 



80 " 



36 " 

 30 " 

 60 " 

 10 " 

 60 " 

 50 " 



89 



1085 Ft. 



(0 are Italian Vegetable Marrow 

 5-24 — 6-1 — 7-31 (42 picked) 



61 Feet 



• English Marrow 

 5-24 — 6-1 — 8-9 (24 picked) 



X Davis Perfect Cucumber 

 S-24 — 6-1 — 8-5 (32 picked) 



careful discussion 

 of our rela 



Border of Mixed Zinnias, planted 6-17, up 6-24, blooming 8-10, frost killed, 9-14 

 86 Feet 



Planted Area. — About i-i3th acre. Following the name, the first figures are the date of planting (e. g. 5-24 is May 24th), the second figures are the date when the seeds came up, and 



the third figures are the date on which the first fruit was picked. 

 Second Plantings. — 5, Black Wax beans. 7-29 — 8-4 — 9-10; 5a, Eclipse beets, 7-29 — 8-4 — 9-12; 6, Black Valentine beans, 7-26 — 8-1 — 9-10; 6a, cucumbers, 7-29 — 8-4 — 9-10; 20, second crop 



of turnips, 7-26 — 8-1 — 9-2; 16, carrots thinned from Row 13 on 7-25. 

 Note. — Row 9. Seeds soaked in Farmogerm, and were noticeably better plants. Row 18. 25 tomato plants trained on wires. Covered with fruit when frost killed 9-14. Rows 7 and 



8. One row of Swisschard, 60 feet long, would have yielded enough for the family of ten people. Rows 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 37 were regularly picked from during the 



last half of July and August and September as needed in the kitchen. 



Chart showing succession plantings and yields in L. Cromwell's Garden 



