April 1, 1922 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
One sunny day sandwiched in between 
two rain.v ones has been the rule this 
month, and now, the middle of March, it 
still continues. Yesterday, warm and 
sunny. I figured that lots of things would 
go into the ground today. Rut the day 
was again sandwiched and a cold north¬ 
east storm keeps us housed to day. 
But the garden is still giving us food. 
The late eabbages are not all eateu, and 
the spinach is plentiful, and we are get¬ 
ting from the frames more lettuce than 
we will be able to consume before it 
breaks for bloom. 
The peas are coming up a week or two 
late. The Succession cabbages are wait¬ 
ing to be set. and beet and radish sowing 
has been delayed two weeks. Tomato 
plants are ready to go into the frames as 
soon as they can be moved off the lettuce. 
We mortals are never satisfied with the 
weather. Last Summer we longed for 
rain, and did our best to keep one little 
spot watered. Now we are over-watered 
and want more sunshine, and probably in 
six weeks we shall be watching the clouds 
and wishing it would rain. If we could 
control the weather, we would never be 
unanimous as to the time for rain and the 
time for sun. Hence it is well as it is. 
If the rain detains us, it detains everyone 
else. 
Fortunately, our sandy soil can be 
worked when a clay loam would be in¬ 
jured by handling, but it still does not 
get into the best state by working when 
too wet. There are some very hard things 
which take a whole season, and if not 
got in early will not reach as fine a size 
as they should. This is true of the leeks. 
Here leeks should be sown in February 
to give them full time to get well-devel¬ 
oped shanks. A gardener on a country 
seat of rich folks makes the largest leeks 
T have ever seen. He has plenty of green¬ 
house room, and he starts his leeks in 
January, and pots them and transplants 
them in Spring to the garden, and the 
next Winter he has leeks three times as 
large as mine: in fact, nearly 2 iu. in 
diameter. Two hardy crops we find will 
not do to be sown too early here. The 
books usually advise the sowing of par¬ 
snips and salsify among the earliest 
things planted. This may do in the North, 
but as we come southward we must sow’ 
these later, late May here, and in Central 
North Carolina late June. Otherwise 
they get overgrown parsnips, will have 
a woody core, and the salsify may run 
to seed. They make their best growth 
in the late Fall, and will keep growing 
till Christmas. But last Summer they 
did not get a fair growth, and the late- 
sown parsnips did not get large enough 
to be of srood eating size. 
The kind friend who sent me last-year 
seed of what he calls his Jumbo tomato, 
which I found a remarkably excellent to¬ 
mato, has now sent me quite a lot of seed, 
saying that he saved more than he needs 
and not enough to think of selling them. 
This tomato may some time be on the 
market. I find it the best, of the very 
large tomatoes I have tried, remarkably 
smooth and solid, and distinct from Pon- 
derosa and other large tomatoes. I saved 
some of the seed last year. 
I hope the grower will get enough this 
season to induce seedsmen to put them on 
thp market. I do not give the name ami 
address of this grower, because I have no 
right to cause him bother with correspond¬ 
ence. But I am not going to sell either 
seed or plants this Spring. So do not ask 
for them or offer money to me for thorn. 
This will be my main late canning tomato 
this season. There must have been rain 
somewhere last Summer, for all the Cob¬ 
bler seed potatoes on sale hero are over¬ 
grown—probably Maine seed. 
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