| As a rule, we choose to grow bush beans
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| | about two feet apart. Set the plants
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| rather than pole beans. I cannot make up
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| | about one foot apart, or thin out to this
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| my mind whether or not this is from sheer
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| | distance. To plant one hundred feet of
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| laziness. In a city backyard the tall
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| | drill buy half an ounce of seed. Seed
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| varieties might perhaps be a problem
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| | goes a long way, you see. Kohlrabi is
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| since it would be difficult to get poles.
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| | served and prepared like turnip. It is a
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| But these running beans can be trained
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| | very satisfactory early crop.
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| along old fences and with little urging
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| | Before leaving the cabbage family I
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| will run up the stalks of the tallest
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| | should like to say that the cabbage
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| sunflowers. So that settles the pole
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| | called Savoy is an excellent variety to
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| question. There is an ornamental side to
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| | try. It should always have an early
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| the bean question.
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| | planting under cover, say in February,
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| Suppose you plant these tall beans at the
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| | and then be transplanted into open beds
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| extreme rear end of each vegetable row.
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| | in March or April. If the land is poor
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| Make arches with supple tree limbs,
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| | where you are to grow cabbage, then by
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| binding them over to form the arch. Train
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| | all means choose Savoy.
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| the beans over these. When one stands
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| | Carrots are of two general kinds: those
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| facing the garden, what a beautiful
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| | with long roots, and those with short
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| terminus these bean arches make.
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| | roots. If long-rooted varieties are
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| Beans like rich, warm, sandy soil. In
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| | chosen, then the soil must be worked down
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| order to assist the soil be sure to dig
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| | to a depth of eighteen inches, surely.
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| deeply, and work it over thoroughly for
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| | The shorter ones will do well in eight
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| bean culture. It never does to plant
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| | inches of well-worked sandy soil. Do not
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| beans before the world has warmed up from
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| | put carrot seed into freshly manured
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| its spring chills. There is another
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| | land. Another point in carrot culture is
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| advantage in early digging of soil. It
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| | one concerning the thinning process. As
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| brings to the surface eggs and larvae of
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| | the little seedlings come up you will
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| insects. The birds eager for food will
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| | doubtless find that they are much, much
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| even follow the plough to pick from the
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| | too close together. Wait a bit, thin a
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| soil these choice morsels. A little lime
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| | little at a time, so that young, tiny
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| worked in with the soil is helpful in the
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| | carrots may be used on the home table.
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| cultivation of beans.
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| | These are the points to jot down about
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| Bush beans are planted in drills about
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| | the culture of carrots.
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| eighteen inches apart, while the
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| | The cucumber is the next vegetable in the
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| pole-bean rows should be three feet
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| | line. This is a plant from foreign lands.
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| apart. The drills for the bush limas
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| | Some think that the cucumber is really a
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| should be further apart than those for
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| | native of India. A light, sandy and rich
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| the other dwarf beans say three feet.
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| | soil is needed I mean rich in the sense
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| This amount of space gives opportunity
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| | of richness in organic matter. When
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| for cultivation with the hoe. If the
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| | cucumbers are grown outdoors, as we are
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| running beans climb too high just pinch
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| | likely to grow them, they are planted in
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| off the growing extreme end, and this
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| | hills. Nowadays, they are grown in
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| will hold back the upward growth.
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| | hothouses; they hang from the roof, and
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| Among bush beans are the dwarf, snap or
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| | are a wonderful sight. In the greenhouse
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| string beans, the wax beans, the bush
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| | a hive of bees is kept so that
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| limas, one variety of which is known as
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| | cross-fertilization may go on.
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| brittle beans. Among the pole beans are
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| | But if you intend to raise cucumbers
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| the pole limas, wax and scarlet runner.
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| | follow these directions: Sow the seed
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| The scarlet runner is a beauty for
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| | inside, cover with one inch of rich soil.
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| decorative effects. The flowers are
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| | In a little space of six inches diameter,
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| scarlet and are fine against an old
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| | plant six seeds. Place like a bean seed
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| fence. These are quite lovely in the
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| | with the germinating end in the soil.
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| flower garden. Where one wishes a vine,
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| | When all danger of frost is over, each
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| this is good to plant for one gets both a
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| | set of six little plants, soil and all,
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| vegetable, bright flowers and a screen
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| | should be planted in the open. Later,
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| from the one plant. When planting beans
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| | when danger of insect pests is over, thin
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| put the bean in the soil edgewise with
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| | out to three plants in a hill. The hills
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| the eye down.
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| | should be about four feet apart on all
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| Beets like rich, sandy loam, also. Fresh
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| | sides.
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| manure worked into the soil is fatal for
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| | Before the time of Christ, lettuce was
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| beets, as it is for many another crop.
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| | grown and served. There is a wild lettuce
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| But we will suppose that nothing is
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| | from which the cultivated probably came.
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| available but fresh manure. Some
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| | There are a number of cultivated
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| gardeners say to work this into the soil
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| | vegetables which have wild ancestors,
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| with great care and thoroughness. But
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| | carrots, turnips and lettuce being the
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| even so, there is danger of a particle of
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| | most common among them. Lettuce may be
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| it getting next to a tender beet root.
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| | tucked into the garden almost anywhere.
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| The following can be done; Dig a trench
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| | It is surely one of the most decorative
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| about a foot deep, spread a thin layer of
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| | of vegetables. The compact head, the
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| manure in this, cover it with soil, and
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| | green of the leaves, the beauty of
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| plant above this. By the time the main
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| | symmetry all these are charming
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| root strikes down to the manure layer,
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| | characteristics of lettuces.
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| there will be little harm done. Beets
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| | As the summer advances and as the early
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| should not be transplanted. If the rows
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| | sowings of lettuce get old they tend to
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| are one foot apart there is ample space
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| | go to seed. Don't let them. Pull them up.
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| for cultivation. Whenever the weather is
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| | None of us are likely to go into the
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| really settled, then these seeds may be
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| | seed-producing side of lettuce. What we
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| planted. Young beet tops make fine
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| | are interested in is the raising of
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| greens. Greater care should be taken in
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| | tender lettuce all the season. To have
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| handling beets than usually is shown.
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| | such lettuce in mid and late summer is
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| When beets are to be boiled, if the tip
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| | possible only by frequent plantings of
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| of the root and the tops are cut off, the
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| | seed. If seed is planted every ten days
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| beet bleeds. This means a loss of good
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| | or two weeks all summer, you can have
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| material. Pinching off such parts with
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| | tender lettuce all the season. When
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| the fingers and doing this not too
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| | lettuce gets old it becomes bitter and
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| closely to the beet itself is the proper
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| | tough.
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| method of handling.
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| | Melons are most interesting to experiment
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| There are big coarse members of the beet
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| | with. We suppose that melons originally
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| and cabbage families called the mangel
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| | came from Asia, and parts of Africa.
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| wurzel and ruta baga. About here these
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| | Melons are a summer fruit. Over in
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| are raised to feed to the cattle. They
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| | England we find the muskmelons often
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| are a great addition to a cow's dinner.
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| | grown under glass in hothouses. The vines
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| The cabbage family is a large one. There
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| | are trained upward rather than allowed to
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| is the cabbage proper, then cauliflower,
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| | lie prone. As the melons grow large in
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| broccoli or a more hardy cauliflower,
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| | the hot, dry atmosphere, just the sort
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| kale, Brussels sprouts and kohlrabi, a
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| | which is right for their growth, they
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| cabbage-turnip combination.
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| | become too heavy for the vine to hold up.
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| Cauliflower is a kind of refined,
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| | So they are held by little bags of
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| high-toned cabbage relative. It needs a
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| | netting, just like a tennis net in size
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| little richer soil than cabbage and
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| | of mesh. The bags are supported on nails
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| cannot stand the frost. A frequent
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| | or pegs. It is a very pretty sight I can
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| watering with manure water gives it the
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| | assure you. Over here usually we raise
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| extra richness and water it really needs.
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| | our melons outdoors. They are planted in
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| The outer leaves must be bent over, as in
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| | hills. Eight seeds are placed two inches
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| the case of the young cabbage, in order
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| | apart and an inch deep. The hills should
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| to get the white head. The dwarf
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| | have a four foot sweep on all sides; the
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| varieties are rather the best to plant.
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| | watermelon hills ought to have an
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| Kale is not quite so particular a cousin.
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| | allowance of eight to ten feet. Make the
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| It can stand frost. Rich soil is
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| | soil for these hills very rich. As the
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| necessary, and early spring planting,
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| | little plants get sizeable say about four
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| because of slow maturing. It may be
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| | inches in height reduce the number of
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| planted in September for early spring
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| | plants to two in a hill. Always in such
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| work.
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| | work choose the very sturdiest plants to
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| Brussels sprouts are a very popular
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| | keep. Cut the others down close to or a
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| member of this family. On account of
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| | little below the surface of the ground.
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| their size many people who do not like to
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| | Pulling up plants is a shocking way to
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| serve poor, common old cabbage will serve
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| | get rid of them. I say shocking because
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| these. Brussels sprouts are interesting
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| | the pull is likely to disturb the roots
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| in their growth. The plant stalk runs
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| | of the two remaining plants. When the
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| skyward. At the top, umbrella like, is a
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| | melon plant has reached a length of a
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| close head of leaves, but this is not
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| | foot, pinch off the end of it. This pinch
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| what we eat. Shaded by the umbrella and
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| | means this to the plant: just stop
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| packed all along the stalk are delicious
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| | growing long, take time now to grow
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| little cabbages or sprouts. Like the rest
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| | branches. Sand or lime sprinkled about
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| of the family a rich soil is needed and
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| | the hills tends to keep bugs away.
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| plenty of water during the growing
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| | The word pumpkin stands for good,
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| period. The seed should be planted in
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| | old-fashioned pies, for Thanksgiving, for
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| May, and the little plants transplanted
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| | grandmother's house. It really brings
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| into rich soil in late July. The rows
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| | more to mind than the word squash. I
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| should be eighteen inches apart, and the
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| | suppose the squash is a bit more useful,
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| plants one foot apart in the rows.
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| | when we think of the fine Hubbard, and
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| Kohlrabi is a go-between in the families
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| | the nice little crooked-necked summer
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| of cabbage and turnip. It is sometimes
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| | squashes; but after all, I like to have
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| called the turnip-root cabbage. Just
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| | more pumpkins. And as for
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| above the ground the stem of this plant
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| | Jack-o'-lanterns why they positively
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| swells into a turnip-like vegetable. In
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| | demand pumpkins. In planting these, the
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| the true turnip the swelling is
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| | same general directions hold good which
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| underground, but like the cabbage,
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| | were given for melons. And use these same
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| kohlrabi forms its edible part above
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| | for squash-planting, too. But do not
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| ground. It is easy to grow. Only it
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| | plant the two cousins together, for they
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| should develop rapidly, otherwise the
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| | have a tendency to run together. Plant
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| swelling gets woody, and so loses its
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| | the pumpkins in between the hills of corn
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| good quality. Sow out as early as
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| | and let the squashes go in some other
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| possible; or sow inside in March and
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| | part of the garden.
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| transplant to the open. Plant in drills
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