A JERSEYMAN AND HIS GARDEN. 
The first thing I did toward my 1910 
garden was to draw the plan, a prac¬ 
tical duplicate of which accompanies this 
article. Then I made out a list of the 
required seeds and ordered them from 
three different seedsmen. The seeds 
cost $2.65. On February 14 I planted 
the seed of June Pink and Burpee’s 
Dwarf Giant tomatoes in shallow seed 
boxes in the house. In the Fall of 1909 
I arranged a cold frame, making the 
frame of rough pine boards, which I 
staked and nailed together, putting some 
manure on top and spading same into 
the ground, fining and raking the sur¬ 
face into shape. I set some lettuce 
plants in the Fall, also planted a few 
radish seed. During the Winter I 
covered the sash with old matting and 
oilcloth at night. On the occasion of 
one heavy snow it remained covered for 
several days before the snow was 
shoveled off, and some sunlight given. 
About one-half of the lettuce died for 
various reasons, and the radishes did 
not amount to much; what few I ate 
are not counted in the returns from the 
garden. On February 22 I planted 
some lettuce and celery seed in this 
frame. The waste vegetable matter of 
all kinds from the garden, such as all 
vines, vegetable tops, lawn and hedge 
clippings, etc., I composted with a load 
of manure, and two bushels of air- 
slaked lime in the Fall, turning it twice 
during the Winter. This compost was 
spread over part of the ground, and I 
bought another cartload of manure to 
broadcast the remainder of it. 
On March 25 I had it plowed with a 
two-horse plow and well harrowed. As 
I was not at home when the plowman 
came, he about plowed up two rows of 
Fall-planted spinach next to the straw¬ 
berries, by a mistake in understanding 
my orders. I planted beets in one of 
these rows a little later for this reason. 
My time on the 25th was used to finish 
the job of plowing by spading up the 
corners that he could not get at, and 
by smoothing the entire plowed surface 
with a hand rake. Then with my plans 
as a guide, using a 16-foot rod and a 
carpenter’s two-foot rule to measure, I 
drove a stake at each end of each row. 
Now I was in shape to string my gar¬ 
den line on the proper stakes to locate 
any row I wanted. These stakes I 
allowed to remain during the season, or 
at least until all use of them was made. 
On March 26 I put out onion sets, 
planting parsnip seeds between the sets 
in the same row. On March 28 planted 
five rows of beets and one row of peas; 
29th, planted two rows Bovee potatoes; 
30th, I made up two rows for tomato 
plants, then raked the top off the ridge 
row and planted radish seed in them. 
These early plantings of radishes are 
troubled with the radish maggot, and I 
fail to get more than half a crop. I 
have heard that salt is a preventive, but 
have not tried it yet. On March 31 I 
removed tomato plants from seed box in 
house to cold frame. On April 2 I 
planted beets after spinach previously 
referred to, and a row to be followed 
later by corn; also planted first row of 
corn, one-half row Peep o’ Day, and 
one-half row of Howling Mob varieties, 
and set lettuce plants from frame be¬ 
tween the corn hills. On April 6 planted 
pepper seed in cold frames and one-half 
row each of Green Pod and wax bean, 
dwarf varieties, and set one row of let¬ 
tuce plants where the second planting of 
corn would take place. I continued to 
plant at about the time marked on the 
plan; peas about 12 days apart for a suc¬ 
cession, and corn about 15 days apart. 
I was disappointed in getting cabbage 
plants, and somewhat later got some 
from a farmer. The more tender vege¬ 
tables I planted later as the season be¬ 
came warmer and settled. 
On April 28 I sold five cents’ worth 
of lettuce plants from cold frame. This 
was my first sale of the season, and 
with the additional sale of one and one- 
half dozen tomato plants was all that 
was sold from the cold frame or counted 
in my returns for the season. My late 
tomato plants were grown in this space 
and used in the rows. The cultivation 
was done with a Planet Jr. wheel hoe, 
going through the garden about once a 
week as a rule with kind of tool de¬ 
pendent upon size and variety of plants. 
In addition I tried to stir soil after each 
rain as soon as dry enough to do so, 
this to break up evaporation. Early 
tomatoes were a general very light crop 
in this section, and mine were no ex¬ 
ception to the rule. I picked my first 
$5.50; 20 pounds nitrate of soda. SO cents; 
bone dust. $1; salt for celery, 20 cents; 
plowing, $1; six eggplants, 25 cents; 
total expenses, $11.40. Returns from 
garden, $134.21; net returns to pay for 
work, $122.81 ; the satisfaction of fresh 
vegetables to us from April 7 till the 
present time, or about 11 months, as I 
yet have celery and parsnips to use; I 
also have the satisfaction of beating my 
own record, per table: 
Year 
Yield 
Yield 
per acre 
1905 . 
.$33.00 
$412.50 
1906 . 
. 82.53 
1,031.63 
1907 . 
. 79.74 
996.75 
1908 . 
.104.20 
1,302.50 
1909 . 
.113.25 
1,415.63 
1910 . 
1,677.63 
The garden is 45 feet by 77 feet, or 
about .08 of an acre. I am hoping and 
planning for yet better things, but I think 
Hedge Line. 
2 ft. 
A few scullions left from preceding year. 
Strawberries 
1 ft. 
Spinach from Autumn planting. 
1 ft. 
Strawberries. 
1 ft. 
Spinach from Autumn planting. 
1 ft. 
Strawberries. 
1 ft. 
Strawberries. 
1 ft. 
Spinach, Autumn. 
1 ft. 
7 ft. 
Beets, Spinach. Autumn: late tomatoes between beets. 
154 ft. 
Potatoes. 
1ft. 
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FRAME L 
Late tomatoes to follow. 
lift. 
Potatoes. 
154 ft. 
Tomatoes. Radishes on March 30. 
154 ft. 
7 ft. 
Tomatoes. Radishes on March 30. 
154 ft. 
Onion sets with parsnips between on March 2(5. 
1 ft. 
Beets. March 2(5. 
1 ft. 
Beets. March 2(5. 
1 ft. 
Beets, March 2(5. 
1 ft. 
Beets, March 2(5. 
1 ft. 
Beets, Man 
it 26. 
154 ft. 
Pole Lima beans. 
154 ft. 
Corn on July 1, Spinach on April 2. Corn on July 15. 
134 ft. 
Green beans. 
Celery to follow. Wax beans. 
134 ft, 
Corn on June 1. Corn on June 15. 
134 ft. 
Peas. 
Celery to follow. 
134 ft. 
Corn on May 1. 
Corn on M ay 15. 
124 ft. 
Peas. 
Celery to follow. 
mn. 
Corn, early. 
i% ft. 
Peas. 
Celery to follow. 
124 ft. 
Corn, earliest 
2 ft. 
Peas. 
Celery to follow. 
2 ft, 
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2 ft. 
Rhubarb. 
Turnips, 24 Cabbage Plants. 
box of strawberries on May 22, fully 
two weeks earlier than usual with me. 
My potatoes were the best crop I have 
ever had, one-fourth peck of seed yield¬ 
ing more than two bushels. Turnips 
planted early were a failure, in fact all 
of the row next to the hedge, such as 
squash, cucumber, eggplant and cabbage 
were a partial failure. Late in the sea¬ 
son I put two rows of tomato plants in 
the beet rows. As soon as they got 
some size I could not cultivate, and the 
beets ceased to grow. 
My yield for the season was as fol¬ 
lows, sales at actual prices received 
and stuff consumed by my family at 
price prevailing at the time in our town: 
Sales, celery, $22.61 ; peppers, 50 cents; 
Lima beans, $6.61 ; tomatoes, $10.05 ; 
corn, $2.18; cabbage, 32 cents; wax 
beans, $1.59; green beans, $2.11; peas, 
$5.15; beets, $18.20; onions, $1.41; let¬ 
tuce, $4.54 ; strawberries, $3.50 ; scallions, 
32 cents; spinach, $1.52 ; tomato plants, 
30 cents; radishes, $13.96 ; lettuce plants, 
five cents; parsnips, $1.10; total sales, 
$96.02. I used, eggplants, 24 cents ; 
squash, 28 cents; Lima beans, $1.42 ; 
cucumbers, 10 cents; onions, 10 cents;. 
cabbage, five cents; pumpkin, 13 cents-; 
tomatoes, $6.64 ; corn, $4.60 ; green 
beans, 10 cents; wax beans, 17 cents; 
potatoes, $2.18; peas, $1.27; beets, 54 
cents; strawberries, $S.10; radishes, 
$1.02; rhubarb, 60 cents; lettuce, $2.90; 
spinach, $2.25; cabbage, five cents; pep¬ 
pers, 15 cents; parsnips, $1.35 ; celery, 
$4.20 ; total, $38.19. My returns by 
months were: 
April ...:. 
May . 
June . 7.79 
July .'.. 
August . 4.23 
September . 4.30 
October . 2.54 
November . 2.95 
December . 1.50 
Since first new year. 3.79 
$38.19 $96.0" 
In September I invested $3 in boar Is 
for bleaching celery. This brings my m- 
vestment in tools, etc., up to about $25. 
My expenses chargeable to 1910 were as 
follows: Seeds, $2.65 ; five loads manure, 
that I can pause a moment to sum up 
w'ith a hopeful spirit. I took a piece of 
old sod, from about one-half of which 
the top soil had been removed. I have 
practically made a new top soil on that 
half. Starting six years ago with an 
acre yield of $412.50, with the exception 
of 1907, when a backward Spring made 
everything fully one month later, I have 
increased my yield each year until the 
record is an acre yield of $1,677.63 in 
1910. This would seem to me to denote 
that I had increased the fertility of my 
soil with my yield. This has been done 
without hotbeds and in a way that is ap¬ 
plicable to one or five acres if I had that 
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