Iv AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1909 
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MAKING A COUNTRY HOME 
By E. P. Powell 
II. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 
N THIS article I shall try to give notes 
out of my own experience in the way of 
making a vegetable garden, that will do the 
most to make a country home successful, and 
at the same time cause as little work as pos- 
sible. A newcomer from the city can not be 
expected to know very much about the dif- 
ferent sorts, where the making of a careful 
selection is all important. I think it is this 
choice of seeds which will tell the most in 
gardening, not only in the growth but in the 
satisfaction which comes from having the 
primest food for the table. “Then, again, it 
will not do to start out with egg plants and 
onions and other vegetables that need a lot of 
work. I have learned myself to let other folks 
grow my cabbages and some other things that 
do the best in large fields. 
The best policy for a beginner with garden 
seeds is to build a cheap hotbed, or at least 
have it to use as a cold frame. ‘There is not 
much trouble involved in building such a 
frame, and after it is out of heat it will serve 
as a seed bed for several years. Remove the 
sod, and pack horse manure in layers with 
compost or straw, and leave it until there is 
heat. Spread over the top fine garden soil, 
mixed if possible with sand. “This bed can be 
inclosed with thick boards or planks; and the 
glass frame to cover it should be on hinges, 
to lift it easily, or it should be arranged for 
easy sliding. In such a bed you will start 
your cabbage and tomato seeds, and in one 
end grow a little lettuce for early use. If your 
garden is not yet in good tillage, or does not 
get the morning sun, it will be well to start 
a few lima beans, squashes, cucumbers and 
melons on bits of sod inverted. ‘Transplant 
these, sod and all, when they have grown two 
or three inches, and the garden is warm en- 
ough to take them. “The plum and cherry to- 
matoes will sow themselves about your garden, 
giving you no trouble but to stake them. 
You will find after a bit that it will not pay 
you to grow all sorts of vegetables, no matter 
how large your garden may be, and how good 
the soil. Onions, for instance, require a good 
deal of weeding, and those who make a spe- 
cialty of growing them can furnish them so 
cheaply that I prefer to buy. If you have 
corners where you can grow a few cabbages, 
try the wrinkled Savoy sorts, and a few of the 
red, but you will have so much trouble with 
worms that you may decide to do as I am 
doing—leave your cabbages for a specialist. 
The egg plant is a delicious vegetable, but it 
needs a long season, and has a bad habit of not 
giving good results for an amateur. Cauli- 
flower is a delicious vegetable, and you may 
be so fond of it that you are willing to stand 
guard against the worms. Celery growing 
depends upon having a soft rich soil and your 
patience in taking good care of the growing 
plant. As a rule the common country garden 
is not the place for growing this vegetable suc- 
cessfully—that is, you can not compete with 
that which comes in the market so cheaply and 
so high flavored. 
Having told you so much that may be 
omitted, I must give you a good list of the 
indispensables. My own garden makes hob- 
bies of peas, corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, 
squashes; and I assure you that you will find 
all that you want to do in growing a good 
succession of green corn; beans, both wax 
and shell; and a big supply of tomatoes for 
summer, and squashes for autumn and winter. 
Then my lettuces are as fine as rich soil will 
produce, and my bed of beets and carrots com- 
plete the cycle that I toil over. Lettuce should 
be sown just as early as possible, around the 
