How and what to grow in a kitchen garden of one acreDarlington, E. D.
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How and what to grow in a kitchen garden of one acre
Darlington, E. D.
Kitchen gardens; Vegetable gardening
When all danger from frost is over, carefully transplant the Tomato
plants from the cold frame to the open ground, to stand two feet
apart in the row. As they grow tie them up on a trellis and remove
all superfluous branches, so as to give the growing fruit the benefit
of full sunshine, without which it will be of inferior quality and
scarcely worth the having.[21] Nothing can be worse than allowing
tomato plants to grow along the ground at will without any support.
Better it would be not to grow any at all than to degrade them in
that manner. Make a small trellis, four feet high, by nailing a few
pieces of lath across small stakes driven into the ground. I regard
_Livingston’s Perfection_ as an excellent variety, and have grown extra
large specimens of the _Mikado_, which, by the way, seems to have been
cast in the same mold as the _Turner Hybrid_.[22] Be this as it may,
I can heartily recommend either variety to all wishing to grow fine,
solid, enormous-sized tomatoes.
POLE BEANS, as the name implies, require poles or some other support
for the vines to twine upon. The poles must be set firmly, to prevent
being blown over by the wind. Where poles are not procurable, the vines
may be trained upon strings stretched up and down along two wires,
which are stretched and firmly fastened to posts or stakes, one wire
above and the other below. Pole Bean trellis, seven feet high, can be
purchased, and will answer the purpose for which they are intended.
The best pole bean of its kind is the _Large White Lima_. Being very
tender, it should not be planted before the ground is warm. The beans
will come up sooner if the eye in the seed is placed downward. The seed
should be lightly covered with mellow soil, as this bean, considering
its size, has less penetrating power in coming up than any other kind.
In rainy seasons I have covered the seed with coffee grounds, which
never became compact or hard from the beating rains, and nearly every
bean came up nicely, while those covered with earth were almost a total
failure.[23] The Large White Lima is generally considered difficult to
grow, but I cannot say so, as I have grown it without much difficulty,
and had beans to perfection by the pailful throughout the summer. Mine
were planted in very rich soil and the rows were about four feet apart,
three plants to a hill, and the hills two feet apart. If supported by
a trellis, beans should be placed one foot apart in the row. The above
applies to all pole beans, whether Limas or string beans. Of the latter
class of beans I have found _White Creaseback_ a variety of great
merit. _Southern Prolific_ and _Dutch Case Knife_ are also good. At the
North, where the seasons are too short for the Large Lima, the _Small
Lima_ or _Sieva_, as it is also called, should be planted.
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