Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1920 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

START YOUR GARDEN EARLY; Department of Agriculture Puts Forthi Plea for the Raising of More Food Products. Gardens are going to be just as inn pdktant the coming year as during the war period, United States department of agriculture Specialists declare. High food costs, they say, are likely to remain until more to eat is grown andJ distributed. Farm gardens, village gardens and city backyard gardens alB will help. Food produced In the garden not only helps balance the family budget but releases that grown- onj farms for the use of people who are entirely dependent upon others. With the lengthening of the days It will not be long until land can be worked, and such hardy crops as peas,, onions, lettuce, radishes and beets planted, especially throughout the lower Gulf coast region. The average date of the last killing frost of the winter in this section is not later than;

March 15. This zone Includes the southern portion Of South Carolina,, the southern half of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, almost the whole of Louisiana and all southeastern Texas. Several of the more hardy garden crops, including those mentioned above, will withstand considerable frost and! may be planted at least a month before the average date for the last frost. Irish potatoes are easily injured by freezing, but they require about a, month to come up and may be planted! at about the same time as lettuce and radishes. It pays to take a chance on! the early planting of certain of the more hardy garden vegetables. If theyare killed or severely injured they miur be replanted. A good method is to make about three plantings at inter- 1 vals of three weeks, and If the first planting is killed the later ones take Its place.

Corner of a Town Garden.