Vegetable Culture

In general, we choose to grow bush beans rather than pole beans. I can not do in my opinion, if this out of pure laziness. In a backyard of the city, the high grades may be a problem as it would be difficult to get poles. But these beans run along old fences and with little urging will run up the stalks of the highest trained sunflowers. In order to set the pole question. There is a page on ornamental bean question. Suppose you plant these beans at the extreme high rear end of each vegetable row. Make arches with supple branches, it binds to the arch form. Train the beans about them. If you stand to make a view of the garden, what a beautiful beans this term sheet. Beans such as in full, warm, sandy soils. In support of the floor is not safe to dig deep and work thoroughly on bean culture. It's never about beans before the world has warmed by its source chills plant. There is dig another advantage in the early Earth. It brings to the surface of eggs and larvae of insects. The birds eager for food will even follow the plow from the ground to get this choice morsel. A little lime worked with the soil is helpful in the cultivation of beans. Bush beans are planted in drills eighteen inches apart, while the pole-bean lines three feet should be apart. The drills for the Bush Limas should further apart than for the other bush beans are about three meters. This amount of space gives opportunity for cultivation with the hoe. When the beans climb too high just pinch off to run the growing extreme end, and that will hold back the upward growth. Under Bush beans are the dwarf, snap or beans, wax beans, the Bush Limas, a large number of which is known as brittle beans. Among the pole beans, pole Limas, wax and scarlet fever are runners. The scarlet runner is a beauty of decorative effects. The flowers are scarlet and are against an old fence in order. These are very beautiful in the flower garden. Where you would like a vine, this is good for you get both a vegetable, bright flowers and a picture of a plant. When planting beans put the bean in the soil edgewise with the eye for the bottom. Beets, how rich, sandy loam, also. incorporate fresh manure into the soil is fatal for beets, as with many other arts. But let us suppose that nothing exists, but fresh manure. Some gardeners say it in the ground with great care and thoroughness of the work. But even so, there is a danger of a particle of it is always a delicate addition to beets. The following can be done to dig a trench about a foot deep, spread a thin layer of manure in this cover, it with soil, plants and more than this. At the time the main root strikes to the manure layer, will just hurt a little. Beets should not be transplanted. If the rows are one foot apart there is ample space for cultivation. Whenever the weather is really settled, then these seeds are planted. Young beet tops make fine greens. Greater caution are shown in handling beets than usually. When beets are cooked when the tip of the root and the tips are cut off, the beet bleeds. This means a loss of good material. Pinch these parts with th e fingers and does not closely linked to the beet itself is the proper method of treatment. There are large rough members of the beet and cabbage families called the lack of roots and Ruta Baga. collected about them here to feed the cattle. They are a great addition to a cow's dinner. The cabbage family is a big one. It is the right herb, then cauliflower, broccoli or cauliflower hardy one, kale, Brussels sprouts and kohlrabi, a cabbage-turnip combination. Cauliflower is a kind of refined, high-sounding relative Kohl. It needs a little richer soil than cabbage and can not stand the frost. There is frequent watering with manure water it the extra richness and water it really needs. The outer leaves have folded, as in the case of young cabbage, in order to get the white head. The dwarf varieties are more likely to plant the best. Kale is not quite as particular a cousin. It can stand frost. Rich soil is necessary, and in early spring planting, because of the slow maturation. It can be planted in September for spring work. Brussels sprouts are a very popular member of this family. Because of their size many people who are not like the poor old common cabbage will serve these. Brussels sprouts are interesting in their growth. The system runs skyward stem. At the head is like sun, a close head of leaves, but that's not what we eat. In the shade of umbrellas and packed all along the stalk are delicious little cabbages or sprouts. Like the rest of the family a rich soil and plenty of water is needed during the growing season. The seed should be planted in May, and planted the small plants in fertile soil in late July. The rows should be eighteen inches apart and the plants one foot apart in the rows. Kohlrabi is a go-between in the families of cabbage and turnips. It is sometimes called the turnip-root cabbage. Just above the bottom of the stem of this plant swells into a turnip like vegetable. In the true turnip the swelling is below ground, but like the cabbage, kohlrabi forms its edible part above ground. It is easy to breed. Only it should develop rapidly, otherwise the swelling, woody, and so loses its good quality. Sowing as early as possible, or sow inside in March and to open the transplant. Plant in drills about two feet apart. Set the plants about a foot apart, thin out, or at this distance. To plant one hundred feet of drill buy half an ounce of seed. Seed goes a long way, you see. Kohlrabi is served and prepared like turnip. It is a very satisfactory early crop. Before leaving the cabbage family I like to say that the herb should be called Savoy is an excellent variety to try. It should always tell an early planting under cover, we are in February and then transplanted into open beds in March or April. If the country is poor, where you can grow cabbage, then by all means choose Savoy. Carrots are of two general types: those with long roots, and those with short roots. If long-rooted varieties are chosen, then the soil must be worked to a depth of eighteen inches, surely. The shorter is well to do a good job in eight inch sandy bottom. Do not put carrot seed into freshly manured soil. Another point in carrot is a culture, about the thinning process. As the little seedlings you come will determine without doubt that they are much, much too close together. Wait a bit, a little thin at a time, so that the young may be small carrots on the national table to be used. These are the points to jot out about the culture of carrots. The cucumber is the next vegetable in the line. This is a plant from foreign lands. Some think that the cucumber is really an Indian. A light sandy soils and good, I needed my wealth is rich in terms of organic matter. When cucumbers are grown outdoors, as we grow it is likely, it is planted in the hills. Today they are grown in greenhouses, they hang from the ceiling, and are a wonderful sight. In the greenhouse, a swarm of bees so that a cross-fertilization can be kept up to speed. But if one follows these instructions raise cucumbers: Sowing the seeds inside want to cover with one inch of fertile soil. In a small space of six inches diameter, plant six seeds. Place like a bean seed with the germinating end in the ground. When all danger of frost is over, each set of six little plants, soil and all should be planted in the open. Later, when the danger of insect pests is over, thin out to three plants in a hill. The hills are about four meters away from each other on all sides. Before the time of Christ, was grown and lettuce served. It is a wild lettuce from which the well was grown. There are a number of crops, the wild ancestors of vegetables, carrots, turnips and lettuce have covered most to them. Lettuce can be stored almost anywhere in the garden. It is certainly one of the decorative vegetable. The compact head, the green of the leaves and the beauty of symmetry all these are charming characteristics of lettuces. As the summer advances and the first sowings of lettuce old they tend to go to seed. Do not let them. Drag it to. None of us are likely to go into the seed-producing side of lettuce. What we are interested in is to increase the supply of lettuce all the season. To such lettuce in mid and late summer is possible only by frequent plantings of seed. If seed is planted every ten days or two weeks throughout the summer you can all offers seasonal salad. In old lettuce is bitter and it is hard. Melons are most interesting to experiment. We suppose that melons originally came from Asia and parts of Africa. Melons are a summer fruits. More than in England, we find muskmelons often grown under glass in greenhouses. The vines are trained upward rather than allowed to prone position. As the melons in the hot, dry environment very big, just the kind that is right for their growth, they are too heavy to hold for the vines. They are held by little bags of netting, just like a tennis net in the size of the mesh. The bags are supported on nails or pegs. It can be a very pretty sight that I assure you. Over here usually we raise melons outdoors. They are planted in the hills. Eight seeds are placed two inches apart and an inch deep. The hills should have a four foot sweep on all sides, the watermelon hills feet to an allowance of eight to ten. Make the soil for these hills very rich. As the little plants get considerable say about four inches in height, the number of plants reduced to two in a hill. Always su ch choose work very robust plants comply. Cut the other on or something close to the surface of the earth. Pulling of plants is a shocking way to get rid of. I say shocking because the train is likely to disturb the roots of the two remaining plants. When the melon plant reached a length of a walk, pinch the end. This pinch means this to the plant: just stop growing long, take the time now to grow branches. Sand or lime sprinkled about the hills tends to keep out error. The word pumpkin stands for good, old-fashioned pies, for Thanksgiving, for grandmother's house. It really brings more to mind than the word squash. I suppose the squash a bit more useful, when we speak of the fine Hubbard to think, and the nice little crooked neck summer squash, but still, I would like to have more pumpkins. And as for Jack-o'-lanterns, why they demand positive pumpkins. In this planting, keep the same general directions well which were given for melons. And use this same for squash-planting, too. But do not plant the two cousins together, for they have a tendency to run together. Plant the pumpkins in the hills of corn and pumpkins can go in a different part of the garden.