Just now is a most important time in the home vegetable garden. There are the young tomato plants, the young peppers and eggplants to be transplanted and the cabbage and cauliflower to be looked after. All of these are much benefited if they can be transplanted now in a good, well-pulverized soil that contains humus or decayed vegetable matter so that the young roots will not dry out nor the soil bake about them. F.E. McCall, extension Garden Specialist for the State College and State Department of Agriculture, says that these things should receive attention at once. He advises also that the young tomato plants be kept off the ground and sprayed with the Bordeaux Mixture to prevent blight.
Mr. McCall says, “Now s the time to make additional sowings of early peas (Little Marvel) and stringless green pod snap beans. Try some Golden Bantam sweet corn for a change this year. White Icicle radishes, early Half-Long carrots and leaf lettuce (Black seeded Simpson) may also be planted now. In place of the head lettuce try some Cos lettuce for the hot weather. This can be planted by making two or three sowings at two weeks intervals and grown and handled in the same manner as head lettuce. The entire garden can be kept producing some food crop regularly if the plantings and cultivation are kept up regularly and thoroughly.”
The extension workers have made the garden an important part of the “Live at Home” program which they are fostering in North Carolina this year. It is found that the Negroes are already responding splendidly and it is hoped that, this year, no landowner will consider that he has a good farm unless he has a good garden.
From the front page of The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., May 24, 1923
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