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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



February, 1908 



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GARDENING BOTH AT THE 

 NORTH AND SOUTH 



By E. P. Powell 



NORTHERNERS are rapidly learning 

 that they can make garden in the North 

 for six or seven months, and then go to 

 Florida and make a very successful winter 

 garden. In this way the whole year is utilized, 

 while a large amount of expense is deducted 

 in the way of coal bills and winter clothing. 

 I know one bee keeper who takes up two or 

 three thousand pounds of honey at his north- 

 ern home in Ohio, then turns to Florida in 

 time to take up two or three thousand pounds 

 collected by his southern bees. Another, after 

 his northern work is done, gets to his orange 

 orchard just about the time for the early 

 varieties to be gathered, and clears a thousand 

 dollars before the first of April. He then 

 returns to his northern farm. In my own 

 case I finish my work in New York State 

 about the middle of November, and reach Sor- 

 rento, where I am planting all sorts of fruits 

 and growing vegetables. 



Those who choose to grow for market plant 

 their potatoes in January, and their melons a 

 little later. A vegetable garden for home 

 use, however, may be planted at any time 

 you please — as well early in November as 

 later. You will then have your lettuce 

 for Christmas, and your celery in January ; 

 cabbages, carrots, beets certainly by New 

 Year's, and your green peas about the same 

 time. By successive plantings, we have our 

 string beans and other vegetables always fresh 

 through the whole winter. This is in the 

 highland counties, and around the lakes which 

 abound here. Melons are planted on high 

 land, potatoes almost anywhere, and other 

 vegetables are grown for the most part on 

 the lake beaches. Around all these lakes 

 there is a margin of flat land, always satu- 

 rated with water, and made up of muck with a 

 good percentage of sand. Southern vegetables, 

 like cassava and sweet potatoes, take admirably 

 to either high land or low land. These, if 

 shipped to the northern market, get there so 

 early that they have no competition and can 

 command prices. It is a charming sight to 

 see the southern and the northern vegetables 

 growing side by side. 



The coast counties, while growing fewer in 

 variety, are peculiarly adapted to celery and 

 lettuce. There are miles where you will see 

 nothing but fields of the most perfectly de- 

 veloping celery, with lettuce between. The 

 first crop is sown in November and sent 

 north in January ; the second crop is im- 

 mediately started, and shipped in March. 

 Another planting follows for summer sale. 

 The soil is sandy and easily worked, but 

 rich. Irrigation can almost invariably be ac- 

 complished by a flowing well. These wells 

 strike water at a depth of twelve or fifteen 

 feet, and gush out any amount of water 

 needed. It is carried in underground pipes, 

 and fed out to the roots. Of course, these 

 border counties are not altogether wholesome 

 for summer residence, but are all right for 

 the migratory farmer. 



My own home, near Sorrento, on Lake 

 Lucy, is on very dry and high land. We 

 reach water at a depth of about sixty or eighty 

 feet — securing good wells as a rule. It is 

 always best to get well through the sand, into 

 rock. Water can also be obtained from the 

 lakes, which lie like gems, all around among 

 the pine woods. Those who do not care to 

 do anything more than raise their home fruit 

 and vegetables, can secure a competence for 

 the future by buying a strip of pine forest. 

 Although a large part of this has been ruined 

 by turpentine tappers, there still is a good 

 deal that can be obtained, and at low prices. 

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