1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
321 
BACKYARD GARDEN GAME IN 1911. 
PART II. 
June 7 I pulled and sold first beets 
and continued selling beets during the 
month. On the 7th I spotted out 600 
celery plants, and as the ground was 
moist I carelessly neglected to shade for 
a couple of days, when I put a shade, 
but the delay cost me the plants, as the 
sun had them cooked, and cooked celery 
does not grow well. On the 9th I re¬ 
planted Lima beans; 12th, spotted 400 
more celery plants and saved most of 
these; 17th, I planted one-half row of 
Country Gentleman sweet corn. This 
completed the planting for June. 
I used $9.30 worth during June; 
strawberries being canned for Winter 
contributed $5.26 of this. The other 
products were lettuce, rhubarb, peas, 
spinach, beets, beans and onions. My 
sales of products during the month 
amounted to $21.97. June had plenty of 
rain, and things moved off lively, with 
the score of the 30th standing: 1910, 
used $7.79; sales, $19.05; total to date, 
$38.17; 1911, used $9.30; sales, $21.97; 
total, $39.35; $1.18 ahead. This is bet¬ 
ter, but the game is not won yet. 
July 1 I planted last half row of corn 
as my space was used up; would have 
made a planting about the 15th if I had 
room. I picked first ripe tomato on the 
5th, and on the 6th I used first mess of 
corn, Peep O’ Day. On the 8th I gath¬ 
ered the onions whose tops were too 
ripe to sell in bunches. The parsnips 
were a very poor catch, even after once 
replanting, and on the 15th I planted 
beets in this row where parsnips were 
missing. On July 22 I removed the 
vines from the Early Record peas, 
opened up as deep furrow as I could 
with the wheel plow, put in two barrow 
loads of horse manure, threw a double 
furrow back and tramped it down, and 
raked and pulverized and set out a row 
of Golden Blanching celery. About this 
time I bought a load of cow manure for 
use in the celery rows. I decided now 
to put celery where the old strawberry 
patch was, so I cleared the vines off, 
putting them on the waste pile; plowed 
the ground with the wheel plow, going 
twice in a furrow and raked it down, 
and prepared three rows for celery, 
using the cow manure in the rows. I 
also got the rows ready where the other 
two rows of peas and the row of beans 
had been, setting out 2J4 rows of the 
strawberry ground on the 27th and 28th 
The bean row was also set on the 27th. 
When first set between the corn the 
stalks would shade the celery sufficiently 
for a few days. I had some boards for 
blanching the celery, and I took pots 
and inverted them to support the boards 
so as to shade the celery plants in the 
open; it was necessary to water these 
plants for several days until we had a 
good rain, when we could dispense with 
the shading. 
The manure that was left after the 
celery rows were all prepared I took 
and put into kegs and put water on it 
to start a liquid manure factory to use 
on my celery. This is my score on July 
31: 1910, used $4.08; sold, $13.40; total 
to date, $56; 1911, used $7.05; sold, 
$7.69; $54.09; $1.91 behind on August 1; 
better look sharp or you will lose out. 
Prospects for tomatoes and Lima beans 
not brilliant, so I need to keep close 
watch on every chance. When I finished 
putting out celery plants on August 7 I 
had seven rows of celery, which was 
more than in any other year, and I was 
counting on it to help out at the end 
of the season. August 16 I planted the 
cucumber ground with two drills of 
Winter radish and one of Summer rad¬ 
ish ; the Winter ones were shaded too 
much by the late tomatoes and gave 
only a small crop. I also planted some 
spinach in the rows where the beets 
had been pulled out, except one row 
where I had set out pepper plants pre¬ 
viously. 
On August 17 I planted four drills of 
lettuce in cold frame; planted wax pod 
beans on squash ground, and removed 
first row of cornstalks on the 21st, and 
on the 22nd planted three drills of rad¬ 
ish on this space. On 28th planted peas 
on the ground occupied by the carrot, 
lettuce, and tomato plant drills. During 
this month it had been necessary to coax 
my celery with water, liquid manure, 
nitrate of soda and bone meal and care¬ 
ful cultivation. August 31 the score 
was: 1910, used $4.23; sales, $6.56; 
total to date, $66.79; 1911, used $6.84; 
sales, $5.70; total, $66.63. A gain dur¬ 
ing the month of $1.75 was good and 
made it more interesting. 
I celebrated Labor Day, September 4, 
by getting off two rows of stalks and 
planting five drills of radish in the 
spaces, two in one and three in other. 
On 5th I gave some of the celery its sec¬ 
ond dose of nitrate of soda, and set 
some Winter Queen celery plants in 
double drill on cabbage ground, this to 
use some plants that were left on my 
hands after being engaged by some one. 
On the 20th I set out lettuce plants in 
the frame, also some where strawberry 
plants were missing and in the beet 
rows. On the 22nd I used the remainder 
of nitrate of soda on celery, and I also 
pulled _ and sold eight bunches of rad¬ 
ishes, just one month from planting. No 
more chance to plant for this season 
and the score for September was: 
1910, used $4.30; sales, $8.15; total to 
date, $79.14'; 1911, used $7.13; sales, 
$5.10; total, $78.86; a loss of 14 cents 
during the month. It is certainly a 
close match, but while there is life 
there is hope. During the month I had 
handled and boarded some of the big¬ 
gest of the celery for blanching, kept 
coaxing the celery, for on the 6th I sold 
the first; 15 bunches at 10 cents per 
bunch, and radishes were active helpers 
to swell the sales. 
October’s sales consisted of celery, 
radishes, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes and 
beets. October 31 the score was: 1910, 
used $2.54; sold, $23.17; total to date, 
$104.85; 1911, used $2.91; sold, $27.84; 
total, $109.61. I knew that I would 
have to depend on celery for some 
heavy hitting in October, and it did not 
disappoint me, for with its worthy 
helper, radishes, 1911 is ahead once more 
and hard after the record. On the 28th 
I picked the green tomatoes by lantern 
light, as I feared to risk them to the 
frost any longer, and the morning of 
the 29th John Frost was about in his 
coat of white. With the first of Novem¬ 
ber I was still playing the game; rad¬ 
ishes were at the bat the last time on 
the 11th, when I pulled 11 bunches. To¬ 
matoes were placed in the cellar and 
ripened up, and were sold along during 
this month. On the mornings of No¬ 
vember 12 and 13 we had heavy freezes, 
which hit me hard, so that I did not 
store any celery, but sold it as fast as 
I could move it off; finished up for 
Thanksgiving. November 30 the score 
stood: 1910, used $2.95; sold, $18.07; 
total to date, $125.87; 1911, used $3.01; 
sold, $28.18; total $140.80. 
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