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House & Garden 
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Probably the neighbors will be Spinach requires plenty of room 
glad to take any surplus crops in which to develop as fully as 
you may grow it should 
Starting the Garden 
{Continued from page 41) 
with the fresh manure and the sides of 
the frame banked up to remove the 
necessity of building any framework to 
hold the manure. The frame may be 
placed on top of the manure and filled 
with about 4" of earth, and when 
firmed and smoothed over it will be 
ready for sowing. 
The one big factor when preparing 
hotbeds is the heating value of the 
manure. Only fresh horse manure 
should be used, and only that from 
animals that are grain fed; there is lit¬ 
tle heating value in the manure if the 
animals are feed on roots, hay and other 
soft feed. The manure for a hotbed 
should be well moistened when it is 
placed in the frame, and if well firmed 
by constant tramping during the filling 
it will hold its heat considerably longer. 
After the soil has been thoroughly 
warmed the seeds can be sown, either 
scattered in small beds divided by sticks 
or in separate rows. The frame should 
never be filled unless additional frames 
are available for the young plants when 
they require transplanting. When limited 
to one frame it is best to sow but a small 
Egg-plants are very productive 
and should be included in the 
garden 
piece, leaving the balance of the space 
for transplanting. 
What to Sow Now 
There is a strong tendency on the 
part of the great annual crop of new 
gardeners to start with too much en¬ 
thusiasm. We must temper our eager¬ 
ness with good judgment, else ultimate¬ 
ly we shall be brought face to face with 
the fact that our possessions own us. A 
whole lot of March faith will not make 
the rain fall at the psychological mo¬ 
ment in July; figuring how easy it is to 
grow one hundred tomato plants ma5j 
be very good, but estimating on making 
twenty-five perfect plants produce more 
fruit than one hundred ordinary ones is 
better. This is not written to frighten 
anyone, but merely to bring out the 
point that gardens are planned too lav¬ 
ishly in March and far too meagerly 
in July. Is it because we overdo the 
thing at the beginning, and when ad¬ 
versity comes to us we quit? Thou¬ 
sands of these promising spring gardens 
have shot their bolt by midsummer, 
{Continued on page 80) 
The pepper is another plant that 
yields well and is in popular 
demand 
