The Home Vegetable Garden 
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Varieties.— Early: Golden Self-blanching. Late: Giant Pas¬ 
cal, Winter Queen, White Plume. 
SWEET CORN 
Sweet corn is not as well adapted to Colorado conditions as 
many other vegetables, but sufficient quantity for home use can 
be grown in the ordinary garden, except at the higher altitudes 
where the frost-free period is not long enough to allow it to ma¬ 
ture. The early varieties will often mature in sections where later 
ones will not. 
Rows should be laid off about 3 feet apart and the seed plant¬ 
ed so as to have the plants 8 to 10 inches apart in the row. An¬ 
other method is to plant in hills 3 feet apart each way, leaving 
about three plants in a hill. The seed are planted 1 to lp 2 inches 
deep. Growers often take a chance with early corn and plant ear¬ 
lier than the normal season. Then, if the crop escapes frost, it 
matures earlier and is correspondingly valuable. If it is killed 
or fails to come up on account of the seed rotting, it may be plant¬ 
ed again. In the home garden, in the warmer portions of the 
State, it is well to have a succession of plantings in order to sup¬ 
ply the table for a considerable period. 
Sweet corn is in the proper stage for gathering when the 
grains are plump, well developed and just entering the dough 
stage. It should not be gathered for the table or for canning more 
than two or three hours before it is cooked, as its quality is in¬ 
jured by keeping longer than this. The ideal stage of sweet corn 
on the stalk is of short duration, and it should be pulled at the 
proper time. 
Varieties.— Early: Golden Bantam, Extra Early Adams, Peep- 
o’-Day. Late: Stowell’s Evergreen, Country Gentleman. 
CUCUMBERS 
Since the cucumber is a tender vegetable, the seed cannot be 
planted until after danger of frost is past. Rows are laid off 
about 6 feet apart and the seed planted in hills 3 feet apart in the 
row. Six or eight seed should be planted in a hill and when the 
plants are well established all but two or three are thinned out. 
In order to produce plants early, thus allowing for a longer 
growing period, the seed may be planted in strawberry boxes or 
paper pots in the hotbed about the middle of March and trans¬ 
planted to the field when there is no longer danger from frost. 
Cucumber plants do not transplant readily by the ordinary meth¬ 
od, but when put in strawberry boxes or pots a mass of soil ad¬ 
heres to the roots and they can be transplanted without any diffi¬ 
culty. The boxes, which will have become more or less rotten, 
can be easily broken away from the enclosed soil. 
