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The Kitchen Garden Guide
How to
Use Companion Planting for a Bountiful Backyard Vegetable Garden
Try these time-tested ideas to
increase the yield of your victory garden.
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Squash Culture - A
successful raiser of squashes says he manages in this way: I dig
holes as deep as I conveniently can with a hoe, six feet apart,
close by the side of early peas or potatoes. As soon as the weather
will permit I stamp a wheelbarrow of unfermented manure in each
hole, pour in a pail of water, and haul over the manure six inches
of earth, being careful that the hill is no higher than the
surrounding surface. Plant ten or twelve seeds in each hill; when
they begin to run, thin to two vines in each hill. The potatoes will
be fit for family use before the squashes begin to run, and can be
dug ahead of them, leaving the ground mellow, so that the squash
vines will root at every joint. This is a great saving of ground in
a small garden.
Novel Method of Growing Cabbages - A novel plan for setting celery
and cabbage plants which has several desirable points to recommend
it, is to place them between the rows of your potatoes or sweet corn
after the last hoeing. The growing corn or potatoes will afford a
partial shade which is very desirable at the time of setting the
young plants and until they get fully established, and yet ripen and
can be removed in time for them to occupy the ground as a second
crop. Two crops on one piece of ground with ten dollars' worth of
labor and manure will afford more profit than one crop on which five
dollars are expended.
Late Tomatoes - To raise late tomatoes a good plan is to stick into
each watermelon hill a tomato plant. They do not interfere with the
former, and come in after the garden crop gives out. Those coming in
late are the best for canning and putting up for winter use.
From THE NATIONAL FARMER'S AND HOUSEKEEPER'S CYCLOPAEDIA, 1888
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