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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A correspondent asks if it would not do 
as well to get tomato plants that have 
been grown in the open ground in South¬ 
ern Georgia, as they would be hardier 
than hotbed plants, lie seems to over¬ 
look the time needed to get tomato plants 
in good shape for the earliest. As u rule 
the seed for the earliest tomatoes must he 
sown 10 weeks before it is safe to set the 
plants in the open ground in that locality. 
This means here in Southeastern Mary¬ 
land that the seed must lie sown the first 
week in February, so we can set them 
the middle of April. Hut as to the hardi¬ 
ness, no one who knows how to grow 
early tomatoes ever set out a hotbed plant. 
That is, a plant grown from seed sown 
in a hotbed under glass till after it: has 
been at least once transplanted and set 
deeper to make more roots and given 
room for development of stoutness rather 
than height, and has been exposed to the 
air till the stem changes from a tender 
green to a purplish tint. The rule as to 
date for seed sowing is the same North 
or South. Seed can lie sown in Southern 
Georgia in March in the open ground, 
ami the plants may get caught. Hut seed 
sown anywhere in March will not make 
the earliest fruit. The early Spring 
weather is treacherous in the South, as I 
have often had experience with the Spring 
reverses. In North Carolina on the 2(>tli 
of March, 1894, the mercury stood from 
1(5 degrees above zero to 21 degrees above 
in different localities, while previous to 
that for weeks it had been Summer weath¬ 
er, and once the mercury was up to 90. 
Since seed for early tomatoes here must 
be sown early In February, it is evident 
(hat seed sown ill Southern Georgia can¬ 
not make the earliest plants if sown in 
March, and to grow them as early as we 
can here by the use of glass they must he 
sown in Southern Florida; for the last 
two days in February just past, the mer¬ 
cury for two days in succession marked 
32 n(: Jacksonville, Fla. I have had to¬ 
mato plants from Southern Georgia, big. 
lusty plants, hut with only about a tap¬ 
root, as they were drawn from the rows 
where seed were grown. Sot at same 
time my homegrown plants were set, they 
began to make ripe tomatoes the middle 
of July, while mine began to ripen June 
12. Iu the cool Spring season we cannot 
overcome the matter of ng<* iu tin* plants. 
The plants from far South will be all 
right for the main crop. 
Our early tomatoes here will be trans¬ 
planted to the cold frames about tin* mid¬ 
dle of March and will he fully exposed to 
I lie air at every opportunity on bright, 
sunny days. They will be set 4 in. apart 
each way and set deeper so that when 
transplanted to the garden they will come 
up with a mass of roots and soil as large 
as my fist, and set iu holes filled with 
water they grow right off without any 
wilting. Another matter in which I dis¬ 
agree with many : That is in using dirt 
bands, paper pots, etc., for plants. Plants 
(hat I grow in any portable container I 
put in the regular earthen flower pot from 
2% to 4 in. size. These are better, nnd % 
in the long run cheaper than any of the' 
hands or paper pots. I am now using 
2-in. pots bought 10 years ago for $3 per 
1.000, and 4-in. pots which cost me less 
than one cent each, and the pots are si ill 
as good as ever. My tomato plants, lift¬ 
ed from the frame with a trowel, are just 
as good as any in dirt bands, and easier 
to handle and set. 
It is now the 1st of March and cold 
enough for January. Hut now is the time 
for sowing the eggplant seed in the hot- 
hod or greenhouse. As it is never best 
to set these in the garden till the last of 
May, I grow them entirely in pots, set¬ 
ting them in 2%-in. pots as soon as they 
have made rough leaves in the flats where 
the seed was sown, and when these small 
pots are filled with roots the plants are 
shifted into 4-in. pots and grown into big 
plants before turning them out into the 
garden. The soil is then warm and they 
grow off rapidly. On the other hand, the 
earlier we can get the tomato plants out 
and have them live, the earlier the fruit¬ 
ing. Hut I always grow some surplus and 
reserve in the frames in case of disaster. 
There are always plenty of people wait¬ 
ing to take the surplus if I do not need 
them. Sweet peppers I treat as I do egg¬ 
plants. Tied down with rheumatism sill 
Winter, it looks bad for the garden, for 
hands are not to be had. and my hands 
are almost useless unless I could get about 
on foot. Iu fact, it looks as though Ibis 
country will soon he able only to feed 
itself if some means are not found for 
helping the farmers to make normal crops. 
Europe will have to feed itself. A few 
large growers here manage to get hands, 
for the negro always prefers to work in 
a gang, tq chatter when at work but to 
get a hand to work by himself in the gar¬ 
den is about impossible. 
Damage* to plants has been more seri¬ 
ous than in the terrible Winter of 1917- 
18, probably owing to lack of snow. Fall- 
sown spinach is about dead. Leeks are 
browned half way to the ground, and 
onions likewise. In fact, it seems tl»ut my 
old Scotch friend was right, for it was a 
northwest wind on December 21, and the 
wind has blown from the northwest more 
than from any other direction, so that 
the weather has been steadily cold. Hut 
March is here, aud the sun is climbing 
towards the north, aud while I have not 
seen a robin I know they are coming us 
usual. w. P. MASSEY. 
March 13, 1920 
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