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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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Gardening contest (Boston Globe)
The Friendly Garden Club of Beverly's annual gardening contest will
award prizes for Best Window Box - Residential; Best Window Box -
Business; Best Flower Garden; and Best Vegetable Garden. Enter your own, a
friend, or a neighbor's window box or garden. All must be in Beverly. Entry
forms at beverlygardenclub.org. Deadline is June 23.
info@beverlygardenclub.org or 978-922-7854.
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Gardening in the Pee Dee article coming soon (Florence Morning
News)
Morning News health and environmental reporter Jamie Durant is
working on a story in the coming weeks about gardening in the Pee
Dee.
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Gardening event for children (Blyth and Wansbeck Today)
A CHILDREN'S gardening day will take place in the stunning Walled
Garden at Wallington on Tuesday, May 27, which will focus on how to grow
vegetables. (21/05/2008 10:40:41)
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Gardening guru Monty Don to quit BBC show after suffering stroke
(Daily Mail: World News)
Celebrity gardener Monty Don has suffered a stroke and will stand
down from his presenting duties, the BBC said today.
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Gardening With Charlie - Selecting and Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
(Richfield Reaper)
(Family Features) - In a world that worships the new, sometimes older
is better. For me, that's true with tomatoes. While modern hybrid tomatoes
look great and are very productive, the old heirloom varieties have the
taste and look of "real" tomatoes.
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