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Peas:
With care in making successive sowings, peas may be had
during a long season. The earliest, smooth varieties are
planted in drills twelve to eighteen inches apart, early
in April. These are, however, of very inferior quality
compared to the wrinkled sorts, which may now be had
practically as early as the others. With the market
gardener, the difference of a few days in the maturing
of the crop is of a great deal more importance than the
quality, but for the home garden the opposite is true.
Another method of planting the dwarf-growing kinds is to
make beds of four rows, six to eight inches apart, with
a two-foot alley between beds. The tall-growing sorts
must be supported by brush or in other ways; and are put
about four feet apart in double rows, six inches apart.
The early varieties if sown in August will usually
mature a good fall crop. The early plantings should be
made in light, dry soil and but one inch deep; the later
ones in deep loam. In neither case should the ground be
made too rich, especially in nitrogen; and it should not
be wet when the seed is planted. |
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Peppers |
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Pepper: A dozen pepper plants will give abundance
of pods for the average family. The varieties have been
greatly improved within recent years in the quality of
mildness.
The culture recommended for egg-plant is applicable also
to the pepper. The main difference is that, although the
pepper is very tender when young, the crop maturing in
the autumn will not be injured by considerable frost. |
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Pumpkin |
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Pumpkin: The "sugar" or "pie" varieties of the
pumpkin are the only ones used in garden culture, and
these only where there is plenty of ground for all other
purposes. The culture is the same as that for late
squashes, which follows. |
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