VEGETABLE GARDEN 



1989 



not tLinder the growth of the trees nor 

 in the least injure them, provided as many 

 tons of barnyard manure is placed upon 

 the land as there are tons of vegetables 

 removed. In some cases where the land 

 is naturally fertile, this may not be neces- 

 sary, but in most cases this rule will ap- 

 ply. 



Much depends on the circumstances un- 

 der which orchards are grown as to 

 whether inter-cropping pays, or to what 

 extent it will pay; but more depends on 

 the man, the intelligence with which he 

 chooses the varieties, the cultivation and 

 last but not least, the marketing. 



Management 



After all the crops are harvested the 

 ground should be plowed. After it is 

 plowed then it should be manured. Some 

 people would manure it before the fall 

 plowing, but our objection to this is that 

 when the land is plowed again in the 

 spring the manure that was plowed under 

 the previous autumn will be turned back 

 and be on the surface after the spring 

 plowing, while if it is placed on the land 

 after the fall plowing and allowed to re- 

 main during the winter the rains and 

 the snows will leach the soluble sub- 

 stances down into the soil, and the follow- 

 ing spring when the early plowing is 

 done this manure will be turned under 

 and will be a few inches below the sur- 

 face, where it will more readily decay, 

 and from which position the roots of the 

 growing crops will draw their food. 

 Ground should not be plowed when it is 

 too wet, for the stirring of wet land tends 

 to pack the soil, and when it dries it be- 

 comes cloddy. 



In the autumn bulbs should be covered 

 with leaves, straw or litter to a depth of 

 two or three inches to protect them from 

 freezing. The old stalks of asparagus 

 should be cut and burned and the bed 

 covered with barnyard manure about 

 three inches deep. In the autumn the 

 seed should be selected for the following 

 year, and the best and most perfect speci- 

 mens of all products should be chosen for 

 seed. 



In the selection of potatoes for seed 



many people think that it is not impor- 

 tant to select the best specimens. They 

 plant the small unmarketable potatoes, 

 thinking that they will produce as good 

 a crop as if the best were selected; but 

 the opinion of experts in the government 

 stations and in the state agricultural col- 

 leges is against this idea. They advise 

 planting perfect specimens of potatoes in 

 order to get the best results. 



Rhubarb requires a rich, mellow soil, 

 which should be deeply plowed and well 

 fertilized. 



Certain kinds of vegetables will mix 

 by the carrying of pollen from one to an- 

 other if planted side by side at such times 

 as the pollen will form at the same period. 

 For instance, if summer squashes and 

 pumpkins are planted near together 

 about the same time, the bees will carry 

 the pollen from one to the other and 

 there will be a mixture of the two vari- 

 eties. Field corn, popcorn and sweet 

 corn will mix in the same way. 



Granvtlle Lowther 



COMMO]!f TEGETABLES 



The different species of vegetables 

 commonly grown for home use and com- 

 mercial purposes are listed here: 



Anise, artichokes, asparagus, beans, 

 beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, caraway, 

 carrots, cauliflower, celery, celeriac, cori- 

 ander, corn, cress, cucumber, dill, egg- 

 plant, endive, fennel, garlic, gourd, 

 greens, horseradish, kale or broccoli, 

 kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, melons; (1) musk- 

 melon, (2) watermelon; okra, onions, oys- 

 ter plant or salsify, parsnip, parsley, 

 peas, peppers, potatoes: (1) Irish, (2) 

 sweet; pumpkins, radishes, rhubarb, ruta- 

 baga, salsify or oyster plant, spinach or 

 spinage, squash, tomatoes, turnips, water- 

 cress. 



CLASSIFICATIOH OF YE€^ETABLES 



Samuel B. Green classifies vegetables as 

 follows: 



Vegetables may be classified in many 

 ways, but perhaps the most helpful way 

 is to divide them according to the con- 

 ditions under which they grow best into 

 (1) warm and (2) cold climate vege- 

 tables: 



