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The Growing Of Vegetable Plants
A vegetable garden
is admittedly a part of any home place that has a good rear area. A
purchased vegetable is never the same as one taken from a man's own
soil and representing his own effort and solicitude.
It is
essential to any satisfaction in vegetable-growing that the soil be
rich and thoroughly subdued and fined. The plantation should also be so
arranged that the tilling can be done with wheel tools, and, where the
space will allow it, with horse tools. The old-time garden bed consumes
time and labor, wastes moisture, and is more trouble and expense than
it is worth.
The
rows of vegetables should be as long and continuous as possible, to
allow of tillage with wheel tools. If it is not desired to grow a full
row of any one vegetable, the line may be made up of several species,
one following the other, care being taken to place together such kinds
as have similar requirements; one long row, for example, might contain
all the parsnips, carrots, and salsify. One or two long rows containing
a dozen kinds of vegetables are usually preferable to a dozen short
rows, each with one kind of vegetable.
It is
well to place the permanent vegetables, as rhubarb and asparagus, at
one side, where they will not interfere with the plowing or tilling.
The annual vegetables should be grown on different parts of the area in
succeeding years, thus practicing something like a rotation of crops.
If radish or cabbage maggots or club-root become thoroughly established
in the plantation, omit for a year or more the vegetables on which they
live.
It is
by no means necessary that the vegetable-garden contain only
kitchen-garden products. Flowers may be dropped in here and there
wherever a vacant corner occurs or a plant dies. Such informal and
mixed gardens usually have a personal character that adds greatly to
their interest, and, therefore, to their value. One is generally
impressed with this informal character of the home-garden in many
European countries, a type of planting that arises from the necessity
of making the most of every inch of land. It was the writer's pleasure
to look over the fence of a Bavarian peasant's garden and to see, on a
space about 40 feet by 100 feet in area, a delightful medley of onions,
pole beans, peonies, celery, balsams, gooseberries, coleus, cabbages,
sunflowers, beets, poppies, cucumbers, morning-glories, kohl-rabi,
verbenas, bush beans, pinks, stocks, currants, wormwood, parsley,
carrots, kale, perennial phlox, nasturtiums, feverfew, lettuce, lilies!
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