Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — The Kitchen Garden. [ARTICLE]

The Kitchen Garden.

Whether the “garden" be a two-acre plat or a city back yard twenty by thirty feet, there are certain things that should be planted for the infinite comfort derived through the summer from such provision. Herbs come first, that garnishings and" soup or sauce flavors may always be at hand. If besides the place for herbs there be space for a fair-sized garden, let preference be given to cucumbers, which axe good only when freshly picked; tomatoes, and about three plantings, two weeks apart, of lettuce and radishes, which are wholesome only when fresh. If more space still be at command, give the next choice to green beans of the stringless variety, and corn, both of which are so much better if freshly gathered; then peas, carrots (a most delicate vegetable when small), beets and okra.—Woman’s Home Companion. J A