May, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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upon quick growing for their tenderness. 
They get all the morning sun, besides a 
lot of heat reflected from the barn wall, 
and, by four o’clock, the forest shade tem¬ 
pers the sun for the rest of the day. 
Remained lima beans and corn to pro¬ 
vide for. The bean arch system was such 
a success the year before that I decided 
to enlarge it and provide for a succession 
from August to November, as limas con¬ 
tinue to grow until a hard frost hits them. 
Beans and corn in the West Garden looked 
like the best disposition to make of that 
20 x 40 feet. Three rows of bean hills, 
on two-foot spacing 2 feet in the row, 
worked out well, giving four sets of 
arches, the center hill having a straight 
pole bracing the center of the arch. This 
would give 36 bean hills, enough for four 
plantings of nine hills. The first set should 
not go in earlier than May 15, or still 
later with a cold, wet spring. The other 
plantings succeed at two-week intervals to 
July 1. 
Allowing four feet for the west border 
and path, I had 14 x 40 feet for corn, 
enough for 6 rows on 30-inch centers, or 
180 feet altogether. It seems unnecessary 
to warn amateur gardeners not to plant 
their corn in hills and not more than 
three kernels to the hill, but, sometimes, 
in an excess of zeal, as many as ten kernels 
get started in a single hill (probably be¬ 
cause the seedmen sell you such a lot), 
with the result that ten spindly little stalks 
struggle for a livelihood and none of them 
produce a single ear. Corn should be 
rather planted in a straight groove made 
with the wheel hoe cultivator tooth, and 
three kernels are to be dropped at intervals 
of 2J2 feet. As the little stalks grow tall 
you hoe up your hill around them, and 
they will be quick enough to send out 
more roots above the original ones. This 
method of planting insures that your stalks 
will not be wind-thrown when they get 
seven feet tall. I put in Golden Bantam, 
Early Metropolitan and Country Gentle¬ 
man, from east to west, two rows of each, 
planted two weeks apart. The first two 
are large-grained, sweet table corns and 
the last a small-kerneled, fine table variety. 
First planting not earlier than May 7 in 
mild springs. 
This ended the layout of the third-year 
garden, except for some red bell peppers 
and parsley set in the border between the 
Kiefer pears in front of the beans. 
How much seed ? We all buy too much 
seed. Two packets of each sort will seed 
that whole garden, and, with fine, mellow 
soil, there will be few non-germinating 
seeds. In fact, your thinnings should take 
care of the ultimate spacing of the vege¬ 
tables. 
You will observe that this last plan is 
notable for omitting the greater part of 
all the catalogued vegetables offered to the 
unwary amateur. There is no use in 
planting anything that you cannot raise, 
that weeds will surely choke if not babied, 
manicured and hand-massaged. I have 
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