Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — HAVE WINTER “WAR GARDEN” [ARTICLE]

HAVE WINTER “WAR GARDEN”

Astonishing Variety x>f Vegetables May Be Grown in a Few Window and Porch Boxes. —— Window boxes and porch boxes that have done an artistic and highly appreciated service for the home now have an opportunity to serve garnishes and salad for the table if only you call them to serve. The sunny kitcheir window or space by the attic that is glorified by sun and air will be the very place for boxes planted to lettuce or parsley. Select a quick-growing variety, plant shallow as in cold frames, cover with glass the first two weeks if convenient (they grow nicely without that coaxing, however), and you will have lettuce very soon. Young onions may be grown in the same way. In England the dandelion is planted in flower pots and window boxes and used all winter as a salad. This was a government recommendation. Fresh vegetables and salads are great disease preventives. A letter from London says: “Fof thpse.who like bleached salad dandelions grown in the cellars and flower pots are as white and tender as endive and cost nothing at all. People have got to have some sort of fresh food. The scarcity of vegetables and the prohibitive prices kept many people from eating them last winter and children especially suffered. The government doctors say that those mysterious vltamlnes are to be found in greater-abundance in a dish of salad than anywhere else.” -