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Starting  Very  Early  Vegetables 
Numerous  ways  have  been  tried  to  grow 
early  vegetables,  not  only  by  the  market 
gardener,  but  also  by  those  who  grow 
vegetables  for  family  use.  The  man  who 
can  get  bis  vegetables  and  fruit  on  the 
market  a  few  days  ahead  of  his  neighbor 
is  the  man  who  gets  the  largest  slice  of 
the  “melon.”  Some  gardeners  plant  the 
seed  or  set  the  plant  where  it  is  to  remain 
early  in  the  season,  and  then  put  a  small 
box  with  an  8x10  glass  in  the  top  over  the 
hill  or  plant  to  protect  it  from  the  cold. 
This  is  a  very  unsatisfactory  way  of  try¬ 
ing  to  force  them,  as  it  takes  constant 
care  to  keep  the  temperature  at  the  proper 
degree.  If  the  sun  shines  very  bright, 
it  is  very  apt  to  get  too  hot  under  the 
glass  and  burn  the  plant.  If  the  box  is 
covered  with  cloth,  the  young  plants  do 
not  get  enough  light,  and  consequently 
grow  too  spindly. 
In  my  35  years  of  experience  I  find  the 
best  results  can  be  obtained  by  cutting 
sod  4  in.  square,  invert  them  in  the  hot¬ 
bed  or  cold  frame,  placing  them  as  close 
together  as  possible,  then  place  seed 
or  plant  on  center  of  each  sod  and  let  it 
remain  under  sash  until  it  is  safe  to 
transplant  to  open  ground.  The  best  and 
quickest  way  to  prepare  the  sod  is  to 
lay  out  a  square  that  will  cut  the  desired 
number  of  sod,  take  a  hatchet  and  cut 
across  the  square  4  in  apart,  then  cut 
across  the  other  way  4  in.  apart.  Take 
a  spade  and  run  under  the  sod  about  3  in., 
removing  six  sods  at  a  time.  Now  invert 
the  sod  in  the  hotbed  or  cold  frame,  place 
two  Lima  beans,  or  eight  melon  seeds, 
or  four  grains  of  corn  on  the  top  of  each 
sod.  Sift  an  inch  of  fine  rich  soil  over 
the  seed  and  firm  with  a  hoard.  When 
the  seeds  come  up,  keep  the  soil  worked 
so  as  to  kill  the  weeds,  and  water  when 
necessary.  In  transplanting  plants  from 
the  seed  bed  on  the  sod,  such  as  tomatoes, 
eggplants,  pepper,  etc.,  cut  a  number  of 
sticks  8  in.  long  and  stick  one  in  the  cen¬ 
ter  of  sod.  Then  sift  4  in.  of  fine 
rich  soil  over  the  sod,  firm  the  soil  with 
the  fingers  around  the  sticks,  Jhen  remove 
them  and  put  a  plant  in  each  hole.  This 
will  insure  your  getting  the  plant  in  the 
center  of  the  hill. 
The  two  most  important  things  to  re¬ 
member  in  connection  with  this  work  are 
to  have  the  plants  properly  hardened  off 
before  setting  in  the  open  ground,  and  not 
to  set  in  open  ground  until  ffiere  is  no 
danger  of  frost.  The  sash  should  be  re¬ 
moved  from  the  bed  at  least  a  week  before 
the  plants  are  removed,  and  should  have 
plenty  of  air  previous  to  removing  the 
sash.  Wet  the  bed  thoroughly  the  day 
before  you  take  the  plants  out  of  the  bed. 
so  the  fine,  soil  will  adhere  to  the  roots 
when  the  sods  are  taken  up.  To  separate 
the  sods,  take  a  large  knife  and  cut  down 
between  the  sods,  place  them  in  flats  and 
remove  to  field  for  planting.  A  warm, 
moist  day  is  an  ideal  time  to  do  this  work. 
After  transplanting,  do  not  wait  for 
bugs  or  blight  to  come  before  you  start 
to  fight  them,  but  start  the  fight  by  keep¬ 
ing  them  away.  The  melons  and  cucum¬ 
bers  should  be  dusted  with  dry  wood  ashes 
to  keep  the  bugs  off,  and  eggplants  and 
tomatoes  should  be  dusted  with  the  same, 
for  the  black  flea  beetle.  This  is  the  best 
preventive  that  I  have  ever  tried,  and  it 
never  fails.  Then  they  will  want  to  be 
sprayed  with  Bordeaux  mixture  once  a 
week.  This  is  very  necessary  to  prevent 
blight.  Do  not  plant  your  tomatoes  or 
eggplants  on  the  same  plot  of  ground 
where  these  vegetables  were  the  previous 
year.  A  rather  poor  soil  is  best  for  pep¬ 
pers,  with  fertilizer  scattered  around  the 
plant  and  worked  in  with  the  hoe.  If  the 
soil  is  rich  they  grow  too  much  bush  and 
few  peppers.  Much  earlier  tomatoes  can 
he  obtained  also  by  planting  on  rather 
light  soil  and  using  fertilizer  instead 
of  manure.  The  proper  time  to  plant 
the  seed  of  melon,  cucumber,  Lima  bean, 
and  sweet  corn  in,  the  sod  is  April  15  in 
this  section,  where  it  is  not  sate  to  set 
them  in  open  ground  until  May  15.  The 
best  early  varieties  that  I  have  found  for 
this  purpose  are  old  Jenny  Lind  for  musk- 
melons,  White  Spine  cucumber,  Wilson 
Improved  bush  Lima,  Mayflower  sweet 
corn,  Harris’  Early  pepper,  New  York 
Improved  Eggplant  and  Sparks  Earliana 
tomato.  The  tomato  seed  should  be  sown 
March  15,  and  peppers  and  eggplants 
March  20.  These  plants  should  he  large 
enough  to  be  transplanted  on  the  sod  by 
Apirl  1-15. 
If  one  has  plenty  of  head  room  for 
plants  grown  in  this  manner,  they  can 
remain  in  the  bed  until  small  tomatoes  are 
formed,  and  the  plants  will  not  cast  their 
fruit  when  transplanted  to  open  ground. 
Another  point  in  favor  of  plants  thus 
grown  is  that  they  do  not  become  root- 
hound,  as  in  pots  or  boxes,  and  will  con¬ 
tinue  growing  without  any  perceptible 
difference  on  being  transplanted.  If  grow¬ 
ing  plants  for  market,  I  find  it  almost  im¬ 
possible  to  meet  the  demand  for  plants 
grown  in  this  manner  at  three  and  four 
times  the  price  for  plants  grown  in  the 
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