HOUSE AND GARDEN 
266 
October, 1912 
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(Continued from page 264) 
order that they may be improved by freez¬ 
ing, and then enjoy them for any length 
of time in the spring, is still a puzzle to 
me; for as soon as the frost is out of the 
ground they begin to grow, and if not left 
in the ground they soon dry up. On either 
side of my row of parsnips, and before the 
ground freezes, I dig a trench, leaving the 
parsnips standing between the trenches in 
about eight inches of soil. At any time 
during the winter, if I want a few par¬ 
snips I take an old ax and chop off a sec¬ 
tion of this inter-trench ridge in which the 
vegetables stand, batter it to pieces, and 
thus secure the frozen treasures. 
Don't burn autumn leaves. Last year I 
covered a part of my garden six inches, 
deep with leaves, and plowed them under 
in the spring. Burning leaves is a total 
waste, for leaf mold is a valuable fertilizer. 
This winter I am using them to cover beets- 
and celery for winter use, as well as to 
cover my strawberries. After they have 
rendered these valuable services I shall 
spread them over the garden as before and 
turn them under at the spring plowing. 
Don’t let the cabbage worms eat up your 
cabbages and cauliflowers. I do not like 
to use poisons on vegetables that I am go¬ 
ing to eat, even in their early stages,'and 
I have not found other wholly satisfactory 
remedies for this pest. Last year I had 
ten cabbages and as many cauliflowers. It 
was but a slight task to go over them even- 
other evening and destroy the worms. 
After August 1st no further attention was 
necessary, and every plant produced a 
good head. Where these plants are raised 
on a large scale, such care, of course, is 
out of the question. 
When I have planted different varieties 
of radishes I have had the same experience 
— sometimes too many, sometimes none— 
so that now I use only the French Break¬ 
fast variety, planting repeatedly about 
every ten days. 
Don’t wait until May to plant sweet 
corn. Last year I planted ten hills of four- 
kernels each in flower pots in the house on 
April 15th. About May 5th these hills- 
were set out in the garden. In transplant¬ 
ing I poured enough water into each pot 
to hold the soil together, then ran an old 
table knife around the inside of the pot to 
loosen the soil; then, placing my hand 
carefully over the top of the pot, with the 
corn sticking through my fingers. I turned 
pot, plant and all upside down, pulled the 
pot off, and set the corn in the ground 
without having disturbed a root. This 
corn matured fully a week earlier than 
that planted on the day these house plants 
were set out. 
Don't plant late peas in rows side by 
side. This I did last year, only to find: 
that between the rows the shade was so 
dense and the dampness so extreme, that 
the leaves half way up the vines discolored 
and fell off, and the fruitag-e was not good. 
Peas that grow tall should be planted in 
single rows so that the sun and wind can. 
get well at them. Craig S. Ti-ioms 
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