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" PAGE 26 GARDENING—
Vegetable Patches Aren't Snoozing’
By MARGUERITE SMITH IS YOUR backyard vegetable garden doing its bit in the battle of the budget that is popularly supposed to make a happier holiday season? Most gardens go into a nice
* lazy snooze with the first October
“gathered as needed.
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frost but not if they belong clever managers Take the tiny 9 BE. Southern Ave. It's pro-
«* ducing plenty.
Mrs. Glass is still cutting Jettuce she planted when the fall rains came. “It's
“! "plack-seeded Simpson. It grows
fast, stands the cold and we
like its good sweet taste.”
Kale, beets, carrots and a variety of onions—including garlic—are all just waiting to be Part of the onions, Bermudas, Mrs, Glass started from plants set In the spring. “I didn’t get around to digging them in the summer. Now they're coming up—three and four green onions from
= each plant.”
To stretch the fresh vegetable season in spring as well as fall, Mr. Glass is giving their south
. basement window cold-frame a
new cement jacket. As soon as he's finished, he'll
"take out the usual foot or so of
used soil, put about six inches of chicken manure in it with another six inches of garden soil on top of the manure. In spring it's ready for tomato, pepper and cabbage seeds. Heat from the furnace plus heat from the sun hustles the plants along.
Celery, Carrots Taken From Other Gardens
Other winter gardeners con-
centrate on their favorite vegetables, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hart, 2447 8. Delaware St., say
.. “We've been using giant pascal * celery out of the garden, and Lg carrots. These we stored in the # cold-frame.”
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Brown,
5145 N. Michigan Rd.—“We're
.. ‘using broccoli and Chinese cab-
bage out of our garden, carrots, too, and cabbage.”
Holmes * dive, both broad leaved (esca-
~ Mrs. Mary Gerbeck, 753 N. Ave—~“T've got en-
role) and curly endive. I like
- the broad leaved better—it's
easier to clean and stands the
+ cold better.
I've got hardy
onions to use, too.”
. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Dickerson,
818 N. Arlington Ave., “We had «= radishes out of the garden this o Wweek—not the winter variety, i+ Just the regular spring radishes.
We planted both kinds, red and
- White,
in the fall. We get
parsnips out of the garden all
winter,
And we're still pulling
carrots and beets.”
The Rev. and Mrs. Stanley
+ Woltjen, 8131 Guilford Ave,
list “cabbage, broccoli, turnips, curly endive, chard and pars-
~Men and Women—
~Only Higher Animals Go 2
By ERNEST E. BLAU A MAINE TRAIL last summer a game warden encountered a bear walking on his hind legs, carrying loot he had taken from some camp. The bear ran, dropping a bag of flour, pound of tea, can of baking powder, roll of toilet tissue and a traveling bag containing women's undergarments, toothpaste, comb and lipstck. Most animals, though, are honest, and people can leave their possessions anywhere in the woods, without worrying whether the foxes, bears and aardvarks will make off with them,
It’s only when you get into the upper brackets of animal life that you find a creature that's a looter—ready to pounce on anything lying around unprotected. This greedy animal will take it Just because it isn’t nailed down. It's the creature that Plato defined as “a twolegged animal without feathers, and with broad, flat najls”—Man and Woman, » ” » : LOOTERS will take anything, even the most useless stuff, if nobody with a gun is looking. After the northeastern hurricane of 1938, I saw a man arrested for making off
to vegetable patch "4in the James Glass backyard at 71
Mrs. James Glass . « . picks lettuce in November
ley” from their early winter | garden. i Add to these hardy plants | others equally cold resistant such as rutabagas, brussels | sprouts, caulifiower, leeks, salsify and chives for seasoning. There you have an im- | pressive list of budget savers | and tasty eating at a time when the average garden is dead. They're time-savers, too, for there's no canning, storing or processing involved.
Rosebush Mystery
Unraveled by Grower Mystery of the unexpected rose bush—"A couple of years ago,” says a local gardner, “I was hilling up my roses in the early winter and, as usual, I trimmed some of the longest stalks back a bit so they wouldn't whip in the wind. I usually burn these. But the next spring when I uncovered my roses I found I had a new bush in a spot where there certainly had been none before. “After puzzling as to how on earth it got there,’ I decided I had dropped a few of the trimmings, they had somehow gotten covered up and one had taken root during the winter! Now I bury my rose trimmings when I prepare my bushes for cold weather.” This true story is a perfect example of the simplicity of many garden operations that, described in the specialist's jarBon, scare off a beginning gardener. (I speak from experience.) For the business described above is, in essential fact, “the callousing and rooting of a hardwood cutting.”
with a badly damaged stuffed alligator head from some ruins. It was so dilapidated the teeth were dropping out as he carried it. As Havelock Ellis said, “The sun and the moon and the stars ~ould have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
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GARDENING CALENDAR—
REMINDERS for late November... } Mulch rhubarb plants’ with leaves if you have no rotted manure. Leaves deca supply some nitrogen — booster of a. good rhubarb crop next year. ~ - . Inspect your perennials afer a heavy rain. If water stands around any of them, provide a drainage ditch right away. Otherwise you'll have a “winter” killed plant by spring.
” . ” It’s too early to cover most plants for winter protection. Only such tender ones as French hydrangeas, “. crepe myrtle and others that are out of their normal climate need winter coats put on early. >
- . - Most winter covering is done simply to prevent heaving nf roots in our normal alternating freezing and thawing spells. Such covering goes on only after the ground has frozen hard.
” » . Straw is better than leaves around such plants as chrysanthemums which may rot if they're water soaked all winter. It does not mat down. It lets air through. Leaves are good to use where you want to hold moisture, as
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Dishing the Dirt on. Gardening— ing. Cremitad
on spring cially a : potash combination
assistance on raising violets will be greatly Marks, A Brookside Pkwy., N. Drive. A—From observing the widely varying
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leaves. Water them from the bottom, always with warm water. This seems to be strictly a precautionary measure against rotting the crown of the plant. Pot them in a rich, loose soil mixture, using rotted cow manure if you can get it. Fertilize them frequently with very weak fertilizer solution, preferably of cow manure. ' - - ”
Q—What can you suggest about fall preparation of soil, is a question asked by several gardeners.
slow drying after spring rains, the most important point is to trench and raise a plot of ‘it as you spade. Use leaves and garden rubble in a four- to_sixinch layer under each layer of top soil. Lime chopped into a
help to break that up and give you better drainage. Raising the level and improving the
around evergreens.
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drainage will give you a sur-
the rubble
have too much to do in spring 80 it pays to spread out our
methods of successful; are often Jacking. . local growers, I'd say it makes] = no difference what e—/Q—Can you suggest some kind North, South, East or West—| of easy-to-raise vine I could you give your violets. Just don’t] use in one of these white cages let the sun burn their fat| to hang in my window, asks
chores to fall.
growth before they're hit by our
A—If you have heavy clay soil,|Many soils hereabouts are so heavy they scarcely dry out enough to work before middle
early summer heat.
hardpan layer of subsoil ‘will Two points to watch in fall planting — don’t leave ground hollowed out around plant as will happen with too vigorous firming of too little soil, and
plant-
with
can from your own
gardening perience, let's have that, too.
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