Requirements Of Home Vegetable Garden.

ESSENTIALS OF THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN:   

In deciding upon the point for the home vegetable arrangement it's well to dispose of formerly and for all of the old ideas that the garden patch must be an unattractive spot in the home surroundings. 

However,  If courteously planned. carefully planted, and completely watched for, it may be made a beautiful and harmonious point of the general scheme, advancing a touch of comfortable homeliness that no shrubs, borders, or beds can ever produce.   

With this fact in mind, we won't feel defined to any part of the demesne simply because it's out of sight behind the barn or garage.  

In the average moderate-sized place there won't be an important choice as to land.  

It'll be necessary to take what's to be had and also do the veritably stylish that can be done with it. 

But there will presumably be a good deal of choice as to, first, exposure, and second, convenience. 

Other effects being equal,  elect a spot near at hand, easy of access. 

It may feel that a difference of only a many hundred yards will mean nothing,  but if one is depending largely upon spare moments for working in and for watching the theater -- and in the growth of numerous vegetables the ultimate is nearly as important as the former-- this matter of accessible access will be of much lesser significance than is likely to be at first honored. 

Not until you have had to make a dozen time-wasting passages or forgotten seeds or tools, or gotten your bases soaking wet by going out through the dew-drenched lawn, will you realize completely what this may mean.   

EXPOSURE:   But the thing of first significance to consider in picking out the spot that is to yield you happiness and succulent vegetables all summer, or indeed numerous times is the exposure. Pick out the"  foremost" spot you can find-- a plot leaning a little to the south or east, that seems to catch the sun beforehand and hold it late, and that seems to be out of the direct path of the nipping north and northeast winds. 

However,  If a building. or indeed an old hedge protects it from this direction, your garden will be helped along wonderfully, for an early launch is a great big factor to successes, However, a board hedge, or an If it isn't formally protected. hedge of some low-growing shrubs or youthful evergreens will add veritably greatly to its utility. 

The significance of having such a protection or sanctum is altogether undervalued by the amateur.   

THE SOIL:   The chances are that you won't find a spot of ideal garden soil ready for use anywhere in your place. But all except the veritably worst of soils can be brought up to a  veritably high degree of effectiveness--  especially similar small areas as home vegetable auditoriums bear. 

Large tracts of soil that are nearly pure beach, and others so heavy and muddy that for centuries they lay uncultivated, have constantly been brought,  in the course of only many times, to where they yield annually tremendous crops on a  marketable base. 

So don't be discouraged about your soil. 

Proper treatment of it's much more important, and a  theater - a patch of average run-down,-- or"  noway - brought-up" soil-- will produce much further for the energetic and careful gardener than the richest spot will grow under average styles of civilization.   

The ideal  garden soil is a" rich,  flaxen gault

            ." the fact can not be overemphasized that similar soils generally are made, not set up. Let us dissect that description a bit, for right then we come to the first of the outreach-important factors of gardening-- food. 

The others are civilization,  humidity, and temperature." Rich" in the gardener's vocabulary means full of factory food;  further than that-- and this is a  point of vital significance-- it means full of factory food ready to be used formerly, all set and spread out on the garden table, or rather in it, where growing effects can at formerly make use of it; or what we name,  in one word," available" factory food. 

virtually no soils in long-inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce big crops. They're made rich, or kept rich, in two ways; first, by civilization, which helps to change the raw factory food stored in the soil into available forms; and second, by manuring or adding factory food to the soil from outside sources. 

 " Sandy" in the sense titrated means soil containing enough patches of the beach so that water will pass through it without leaving it doughy and sticky many days after a rain;" light" enough, as it is called so that a  sprinkle, under ordinary conditions, will deteriorate and all piecemeal readily after being pressed in the hand. The soil doesn't need to be flaxen in appearance, but it should be brickle

            .  " Loam a rich, brickle

             soil," says Webster. That hardly covers it, but it does describe it. 

It's the soil in which the beach and complexion are in proper proportions, so that neither greatly predominate and generally dark in color, from civilization and enrichment. Such soil, indeed to the untrained eye, just naturally looks as if it would grow effects. 

It is remarkable how snappily the whole physical appearance of a piece of well-cultivated ground will change. 

A case came under my notice last fall in one of my fields, where a strip containing an acre had been two times in onions, and a little piece protruding off from the middle of this had been prepared for them just one season. 

The rest had not entered any redundant manuring or civilization. 

When the field was furrowed up in the fall, all three sections were as distinctly conspicuous as however separated by a  hedge. 

And I know that coming spring's crop of rye before it's furrowed under, will show the lines of discrimination just as plainly.