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• TH« ORAHAM HAW THURSDAY, MARCH 16. I»50
SLOW GROWING VEGETABLES
NEED EARLY START INDOORS
seed (own in thv r»rden and never
moved, will frow faster and mors
vigorously than plants which are
started under protection, and set
out in the garden. While the trans-
plants usually bear first, the di-
rect seeded plants are often not
many days behind.
But for early tomatoes, cabbage,
broccoli and cauliflower, and for
svch slow maturing plants as pep-
per and eggplant, most amateurs
will find it wise to start their
plants under protection, and move
them carefully to the garden when
it iff Til*, in order that the har-
▼e*t of jrmrden-fresh food may bo-
gin a Tew weeks earlier.
HISTORY OF
THE U. S. A.
. . . Texas Style
1492 — Columbus discovered
America. Contrary to rumor he was
not searching for a short cut t >
| j India, hut an all-weather route to
Texas.
1620—First Texan sets foot on
Plymouth Rock.
1774 — Texans organize Con'i-
! mental Congress.
I 1775—Paul Revere’s ride. Paul
was not from Texas, but his horse
was.
1776 — Texans help
draw up Declaration of
dence.
1777—Washington crossed Dele-
ware piloted by a Texan.
17V8—Valley Forge—one of the
darkest moments of history—sec-
ond rinly to the Fall of the Alamo.
1812—British discover naval su-
| premacy of Texans. ^
18"4—The ,Union joins Texa#.
1o9S — Texans win Spanisn-
i American War.
1914—Texans complete Panama1
ir Tomatoes, peppers and eggplant (-atmi
Peppera (top), eggplant (center),
aad tomatoes (bottom) are slo»-
growing tropical plants. Seeds
should be started under protection
and plants act in the garden whe.i
aafe from froot.-
Whether to sow seeds or vegeta-
bles direct in the garden, or set
out plants may puxzle beginning
gardeners.
Most of them decide it by sow-
ing direct varieties which are
hardy, grow rapidly, and mature
early, while they set out plants of
tender varieties, which mature ;
slowly and could not be sown di-
rectly outdoors until danger of
frost is over.
Yankees
Indepen-
are 'given an early start, under
protection, over most 3>f the coun-
try, so that their harvest may be-
gin weeks earlier than would he
possible with seed sown directly '
outdoors. Cauliflower, which must
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kohlrabi. For late harvests, how-
ever, all these are sown in the gar-
den.
‘ For most other vegetables, little
is. gained by. setting out nlsnts,
except tn cases where it might he
difficult to start seedlings. This
mav be true in localities of heavy
soil and low rainfall, and in all,
sections during hot weather.
There are handicaps in tranr-
planting, whieh should be consid-
ered. Whenever a plant is moved
from one location to another, !t
suffers a shock, and growth stands
still until it recovers, and adjusts,
itself to the new location. A cer-
tain percentage of loss may be ex-
pected, and unless transplanting
conditions are favorable, and -hand-
ling skilful, the gain in the har-
vest may he less than was expect-
ed. Many market gardeners find
that late tomatoes grown from
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Earliest Garden Harvest
Green Onions in 3 Weeks
First harveat which an amateur
gardener can reap from spring sow-
ing is a meat of green onions, and
how good they taste! Three weeks
after onion sets are planted you can
puli up green onions and serve
them with the dinner salad.
- Sets, understand, not seed. It
would take two months to; grow
even tiny green onion stalks from
seed., Onion sets ire an artificial
product which men learned about
from nature. The first onion sets
appeared at the top of the seed
stalk, where instead of a ball filled
with seed, nature presented the
gardener with a bundle of tiny onion
bulbs, which he came to call aets.
Only a few varieties of onions
produce these top sets, but when
gardeners saw how much faster
they developed than the seed, some
Inventive genius of the cave man
era (onions are that ancient) had
the happy thought of using small,
half-starved onions instead of top
sets to sow. It worked! The small,
half-starved onion bad a second
4 chance to make the grade, and the
speed with which it produced a
large onion told the experimenter
he had stumbled on a good thing.
To produce these artificial sets,-
known as bottom sets, onion seed is
sown thickly, and the plants are
not thinned out, so they are too
crowded to develop normally. When
the small bulbs mature they are
dried and stored over winter, to be
planted again in the spring.
From 15 to SO pounds of large
onions can be grown from a pound
of onion seta which do not averaga
over three-quarters of an inch in
diameter. To grow large onions,
use the smallest sets, planted an
Inch deip. To grow spring onions,
select the larger seta and place
them two or three Inches deep. The
smaller sets do not make seed
stalks, but devote their energy to
maturing a bulb, which will keep
well to storage, even to a warm
basement. The larger sets send up
an edible stalk to quick time, and
the deeper they are planted, the
longer will be the stalk.
Seed for Bermuda and Spanish
onion plants is sown to the southern
states during the winter, and when
the plants are as Urge as a pencil
are shipped north to be planted to
gardens. They should be fresh and
green when you plant them, and
should not be set out for a week or
two after your garden toll has been
prepared. Space them four Inches
apart to the row. Onion plants can
he grown easily to an indoor teed
box, and set out to the garden when,
the soil U ready, and the plants are
large enough to handle.
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New harden
Vegetables
Now Available
Plant breeders have been busy
during the past few years work-
ing to develop new nnd to Improve
existing varieties of vegetables
both for the home garden nnd the
commercial grower. Tests have
been completed on many and com-
mercial seed producers have in-
creased seed supplies to the point
where they are now available for
widespread distribution.
John E. Hutchison, associate ex-
tension horticulturist of Texas A.
6 M. College, says many of the
new varieties haven’t been teated
in Texas but in other areas have
shown exceptional promise. He
•ays the new bush bean, Top Crop,
is such a variety. It is said to be
a heavy yielder, and is good fresh,
canned or frozen. Another new
bush bean that has shown well in
tests so far is the Contender.
A new pole bean is the String-
less Blue Lake variety. Home gar-
deners in areas where cabbage can
still be set might like to try the
(new Efrly Round Dutch variety.
HutcWson says it has shown up
goo a in trial plantings in Texas.
For the home garden only, he sug-
gests a few hills of a new canta-
loupe—Smith’a Perfect. //
Two new cucumbers are avail-
able. Earliaat of all U a pickling
variety and Palmetto is beat for
alicing and la mildew reeistant.
Exeel la a new onion that waa par-'
tially developed in Texas ana In
early trials has looked very good,
Hutehiaon says. Pontiac, rod, and
Sebago, white, are two new Irish
potatoes. The Murff Bush Porto
Rico sweet potato has boon tasted
in field plantings in the state
with good results.
A new squash which Hutchison
says is vary food la called Uconn.
Two heat resistant tomato varie-
ties art the Red Cloud and Sum-
mer Prolific. Both have been
grown in Texas with good results.
The newest tomato is called Sun-
ray. It la recommended for home
gardeners who want a wilt-resis-
tant yellow variety. It haa relative-
ly few seeds, rather firm flesh, is
medium in siee and has the typical
tomato shape—a slightly flat
sphere. Sunray may ha grown h»
(home gardens in nay part of the
United States where other toma-
toes are grown.
Hutehiaon suggests that you try
a few hills of the now Congo watar-
Imelon in the garden nnd it’s a good
commercial variety, ha adds.
Of course, concludes Hutcldaoa,
you'll not bo able to try all of
these new varieties this year but If
you have room In the garden for
just a few of the more promising,
give them n trial. Give thorn good
care, control the insecta^and re-
sults should be good.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tatum of
El Paso and Mr. and Mrs. J. /•
Dodd and children of Odessa ware
week end guests in the homo ot
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bromley.
FOR HARDWARE, CHINA, CRYSTAL
and HOME FURNISHINGS
VISIT
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nt ItertcHprgadon — Germany col-
lapses.
T946 —• Texans ' drop Atomic
Bombs on two Japanese Cities—
Japan Folds'.
1946 — Texans Demobilise —
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Home gardeners and in some
cases commercial 'growers should
(try some of the new varieties of
vegetables that are now being of
fered for the first time. Plant
breeders are working continuous-
ly to improve and develop better
and more productive crops. The
new varieties are the result of this
work.
Mrs. j. I. Moody and daughter,
Miss Jane Morfidy, Miss Gertrude
Schlittler and Mis* Dorothy Reed
were Fort Worth visitors Satur-
day.
Mrs. Joe 1. Patterson was a Fort
Worth visitor Saturday.
Rev. B. B. Crimm arrived in
Graham first of the weak wheie
he will conduct a three weeks re-
vival meeting. He is staying in the
home of Mr. and Mra. L. C. Bower
while in Graham.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Cook of
Dallas were week end guests in
the home of his patents, Mr. artJ
Mrs. C. J. Cook.
Mr. and Mrs. James Matkin of
Denton attended the funeral of hi.-
father, J. C. Matkin, held in Gra-
ham Sunday afternpoon.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Ramsey of
Dallas spent the week and in the
home of their daughter, Mrs. Hal
Ewing and Mr. Ewing.
R. S. LeSage of Dallas transact-
ed business in Graham Saturday.
E. W. Harrison is in San An-
tonio attending the Cattle Meida
Association.
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A total of 109,763 Texas cotton
producers participated in the 1949
Smith-Doxey Program. They were
members of 1,148‘cotton improve
nicnt groups nnd planted almost
per cent of the state's 1944
cotton pc reage. The program pro-
vice.- free classing and market
news service for all farmer mem- '
hers. It js supervised by the
USDA's Production and Market-
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The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1950, newspaper, March 16, 1950; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884412/m1/2/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.