Gardening for Little Girls

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men or munitions," stirred young and old. Garden clubs sprang up everywhere, and in free lectures people were in

ience, however,-what he called "intensive gardening," so that every foot of the soil was kept busy the whole summer. He fertilized but once, too, at the beginning of the season, when he had a quantity

e other for the number of feet, with name cards for the vegetables that could be fitted in so as to visualize-an

y wetting the surface of the ground is almost useless, and often, by causing the ground then to cake over the top as it dries, worse than none at all, if the soil were cultivated instead. Pests must be watched for on all the crops, and treated according to the special

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2-in. deep drills, allowing 2 ft. between rows. Hoe often, drawing the earth up towards the

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und each stake, and when well started, thin out the poorest, leaving but three at each pole. A cheap trellis is made by stretc

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e soft earth that is full of decayed vegetable matter. Allow each plant 6 in. in the row, and make rows 2 ft. apart. Give a good dose of fertilizer about the ti

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y and sticky, as early as the ground can be put in condition. Cultivate often, and thin out the plants to about 3 in. apart. Sow at intervals of two or three weeks for successive crops up

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May, and transplant during July and August, to 20 in. apart, in rows 3 ft. apart. Cultivate often, to keep moisture in the soil. Prepare to fight pests, early and late. After the seventy or more remedies suggested by one au

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nd thinned out to 3 in. apart in the row. They can be started as early as

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give the plants plenty of water. When the heads are well-formed and firm, bring the outside leaves up an

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w trench in good rich soil, and set plants, 6 in. apart at bottom. Fill up the trench as the plants grow, to within a few inches of the tip leaves, in order to bleach out white.

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trim down tops to within 1? in., and cut off bottom of root so that whole plant will be less than a foot long. Place upright in separate pots or a long box in a cool cellar, fill up to within a couple of inches from tops of roots, and cover each top with an inverted pot or box, to exclude the light. M

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seed 10 in. apart in rows 3 ft. apart (for hand cultivation). Start early in May, a

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soil, and keep moist. Leave only two or three plants to a hill, and do not allow cucumbers to ripen on vines. Plant for succes

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November, if you protect the first and last. Put in nice, rich soil, in warm spot, and t

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soil with old manure. Make hills 6 ft. apart, putting a few shovelfuls of fertilizer in each, and planting about a dozen seeds to a hill. After well started, and when mo

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, 12 in. apart. Firm down with the back of your spade, and when well started, thin ou

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r soaking the seed a few hours in warm water to make it come up more quickly. Pl

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ft. apart. When well started, thin out to 6 in. apart in the row. Parsn

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ut when weather is warm, 4 in. deep; and 3 ft. apart. Select the kind of peas desired, scatter in the rows, and cover with a hoe. They need good soil, plenty

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potato patch! The early varieties need especially rich soil. Drop a couple of pieces about every foot, in 3 to 4 in. deep

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in drills a foot apart (scatteringly, so as not to require thinning,) every two w

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part, as early as the ground can be worked. Thereafter, ev

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w eight to ten seeds to a hill, and after the insects have had their feast, keep only three or four of the vines th

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r, in the house, in March, then the seedlings transplanted into old berry-boxes or flowerpots, and allowed to grow slowly until about May 15th (around New York), when they can be set in the open

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apart, and thin out to 6 in. apart in the row.