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— Gardening in its Infancy — 
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F LATS FOR SEED AND TRANS¬ 
PLANTING.—Toward the close of 
January the vegetable gardeners just 
south of Lake Erie wake up and com¬ 
mence another gamble with the weather 
and the markets for a living. Those hav¬ 
ing plant houses start a fire and pre¬ 
pare the fiats for use. These are shal¬ 
low boxes filled with rich soil in which 
the seed is sown and later used again 
for holding transplanted plants. I make 
mine out of packing boxes of varying 
sizes, so to save labor and material; I 
do not try to make all of the flats the 
same dimensions. My standard width 
is l-D/i inches, so as to hold 10 rows 
inches apart, but I find in practice that 
almost any width not unwieldy can be 
used, as my houses are 40 feet long, and 
by setting a row of one width the whole 
length the waste room comes at one end 
and this can be used for setting potted 
plants. I make the flats 3*4 inches deep, 
using three-quarter stuff for the ends, 
half-inch for sides, and that or thinner 
for the bottom. I make none more than 
30 inches long, and where the material 
is short make them up to 18 inches in 
width. While the houses are heating 
ui> and afterwards as long as it is not 
too hot, I work in the coolest house, 
having a bench there which later on is 
cleared off and used to put plants on. 
Flats are a great convenience, as one 
can move them around, and when it 
comes time to use the cold frames out¬ 
side they can be taken bodily to the 
frames. If I used hotbeds I would have 
flats, and then I could sow seed- and 
transplant in a warm room and only 
have the bed open when replacing the 
tints. It often happens that the weather 
is very bad just at the time that seed 
should be sown or plants transplanted, 
and if everything is in flats it makes one 
independent of the weather. 
Flats in Frames. —If fiats are made 
to he used in a frame they should be 
made of sizes to fit nicely, and be all 
alike, so as to be interchangeable. The 
eentre of a liothed is always warmer 
than the edges, and the plants in the 
shade of the sides grow spindling and 
weak, or else hang back. With flats one 
can shift the position so as to got an 
average growth all around. If the inside 
width of frame is 60 inches make the 
flats a scant 30 inches; then by taking 
out a flat the one opposite can be slid 
across and the first one put hack the 
same end first, and thus the outside ends 
of both will be in the middle. In sowing 
seed I always sow in drills about 1 Vi 
inch apart. By sowing in drills I can 
see just what I am doing, and can if I 
'•boose take out every other drill and 
thus give room to the remaining plants. 
I find that one can be two weeks in 
transplanting a certain sowing and no 
difference will be apparent afterward, 
provided the alternate rows are left, as 
they have room to grow and do not be¬ 
come drawn and spindling. Again if 
time is precious another kind of seed can 
be sown in the drills as fast as emptied 
and be germinating. I have just trans¬ 
planted 12,000 Grand Rapids lettuce 
plants and find that the seed boxes aver¬ 
aged about 2f>0 plants per square foot. 
Gabbage, onions and beets I sow thinner, 
•>nd tomatoes still more sparingly, espe¬ 
cially with the late sowings, as I like 
to have strong, stocky plants. 
Sowing on a Large Scale. —At the 
big greenhouses at Toledo they sow 
broadcast and cover with burlap. They 
have machine-made flats of exactly one 
size and a flat 12x28 inches will have 
more than 2.000 Grand Rapids lettuce 
plants in it. These are transplanted in 
the cotyledon stage, when about an inch 
high, and the work has to be done 
promptly. The soil is free from gravel 
and is mixed to about the dampness of 
molding sand, and retains its position 
when marked with a board containing 
sharp pointed pegs into which the Bo¬ 
hemian women who do the work, insert 
the tiny plants quite rapidly, using a 
peg to firm them into place. I have a 
single row of pegs in a stick which I 
us,* to mark each row when transplant¬ 
ing. the distance of the rows being 
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marked with a rule and pencil on the 
edge of the box. At the first transplant¬ 
ing I space IVj inch each way, but some 
plantsmen put .the rows 2*4x1. Either 
way brings good results in sowing. I 
mark the drill rows with a beveled edged 
ruler and cover with white sand. 
Preparing Soil. —Last year I lost all 
my first sowing of peppers in a single 
night by mice. This year I am keeping a 
cat in the house. She has a habit of 
stretching out in the sun on the plants, 
but it is the least of two evils, as I 
have never been able to kill all the mice. 
I am making sure of some choice self- 
saved seed by sowing in large flower pots 
and covering with panes of glass. For 
soil I always prepare the season before 
by making a comport heap of weeds and 
refuse of vegetables piled up with the 
soil left in flats, after putting out plants. 
Toward Fall all is shoveled over and 
dumped in a heap in a cold frame just 
outside the plant house, and before 
Winter shoveled into flats and either car¬ 
ried in, or piled up and covered with 
leaves to keep out frost. This year I 
have a large pile of compost made of 
early pea vines and weeds. The peas 
were planted at 30 inches and every other 
space sot to tomatoes before the peas 
were all picked. There were some weeds 
and we could not cultivate satisfactorily, 
so we pulled them and hauled them to 
a pile near the greenhouse. Both weeds 
and vines were vigorous, and the mass 
did not become thoroughly rotten, so I 
am chopping it as fine as possible and 
using it in the bottom df the flats. I 
always sift the top soil both for seed 
and for transplanting, using a sieve with 
four or five meshes to the inch. With 
properly prepared soil of the right damp¬ 
ness and wetting down immediately after 
planting, plants rarely wilt and only hes¬ 
itate in growth for a few hours. 
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