Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1920 — STRAIGHT ROWS AID GARDEN [ARTICLE]

STRAIGHT ROWS AID GARDEN

Utilize Space to Best Advantage, and Add Greatly to the Appearance of the Plot. It will add considerably to the ease of gardening as well as to the looks of the plot if the vegetables are planted in nice straight rows Instead ol helter-skelter. Besides, it will utilize the space better. Where space is restricted, it is best to have the rows run the long way of the garden—north and south if possible —planting several kinds of similarly grown vegetables like green onions, carrots and radishes, in the same row. If you plant such crops as beets, radishes and onions in beds these can be made'four to six inches high by digging narrow paths around the beds with a c hoe and throwing the soil upon the beds. If the drainage of your garden 18 not good it is well to grow cabbage, cauliflower and similar crops on small ridges thrown up with the spade oi hoe. Other crops, among them early peas and celery, should be planted in shallow trenches scooped out with a hoe. When these plants grow the soil is gradually worked back around the roots.