Planting the veggie seed
There is no part of the garden workplace which calls for such nice judgment and thrifty aid as the sowing of come . Most of the failure originate right here , and a great plowshare of the blame give to the seed and seedman , if trace back to its original generator , would be found to rest on the ignorance or neglect of the gardener . In the first spot , there is a trend among a large class of masses to get something for nothing or at least at a bargain . This results in the purchase of cheap ejaculate or exchange premium seeds , or semen are purchased of the local grocer or seedsman and may , probably , have laying on his shelf from the time of year before or an even earlier day of the month .
Now , to have a successful garden one must start powerful by buying respectable seeds of reliable seedsman and seeds of plants suited to one ’s own locality . If , in addition , the seminal fluid have been grown in practically the same parallel of latitude , so much the better ; it guarantee a fearless constitution , acclimate to the condition which predominate in your particular neck of the woods . Now , as a ecumenical matter , honest seed means richly - price seeds or seeds for which one pays a reasonable amount . This is at it should be . One should not gestate to leaven agiotage vegetables from cheap , scrubbing germ , and there is as not bad a difference in the lineage of semen as in that of creature .
Then one should not only see that they are secure the beneficial seed that the market affords but they should secure it in time , not expect until they are ready to implant and then cannonball along off an order , hastily prepared and half the things needed to be forget and most of the others wrong , and expect to take in them by restoration mail . The spring of the year is a busy time with the seedsman , and it is but fair to him , as well as just to yourself , to give him a reasonable time to fill up your society by getting it in too soon . If Mr. Jones has ordered an apothecaries' ounce of silver - skin peppers and scarlet - king parsnips , there ought to be metre allowed for the seedman to inquire what Mr. Jones really wants , and not be obliged to replete his order by shot . Of course , he will readily see that what is wanted is ruby‑king peppers and silver - skin onions , but how about the parsnip ?
Late in winter or former in spring , one should go over their seeds which have been save up from the plate garden and ascertain how far they meet the requirements of the forthcoming twelvemonth . Then a list of such seeds as are not on paw should be made and the catalogs look up for prices and varieties . The list made up then may , probably will , want frequent rewriting , and by the time it is mailed to the seedsman may be trusted to supply just about the varieties and quantities need . And , address of quantity , it will be about as tacky , in a effective many case , to buy by the ounce as by the mail boat ; especially is this the case with those germ of which it may be necessary to make reprise sowings — as cucumbers , squash vine , melons , bean , and the like . A frigid , pie-eyed spring often entails much replanting , and sufficient come should be on helping hand to enable one to replant at once when it is chance on that the first planting is for any reason unsuccessful . owe to the proneness of seeds of vine plants to rot in the basis if too sozzled or cold , a much greater quantity of seminal fluid is require . Generous planting of these seeds is also necessary on bill of the depredation of the squash vine glitch , which must be liberally fed to stimulate him to leave a industrial plant or two for the garden .
Next in importance to the quality of the seed is the metre in which they are sown . There are a few seed which may be planted into the ground as early as it can be worked . Beets , cabbage , boodle , onions , peas , salsify , spinach , and turnips are all set for other crops as before long as the ground can be worked , but such early planting of Indian corn , Lycopersicon esculentum , melons , cucumbers , and other heat - loving plant would simply result in the going of both time and ejaculate .
The condition of the soil , also , has a marked influence on thegermination of the source . When the ground is still wet from the frost in give it is not in consideration for the successful sowing of come ; it is better to wait until it has dried sufficiently to be mellow and amenable before sowing any form of seed . Too ironical a grease is seldom a cause of charge . The thorough firming of the soil over the seed is of the last importance — this and the depth at which the seeds are plant — for in sowing seed in the overt reason much big depth is necessary than would be render the same seed in the hotbed .
In myearly gardeningexperience I was very challenging about getting things started at the earliest possible moment and to have things a little in advance of my neighbor , but several years of covering plants in the opened dry land to protect them from Robert Frost has quite bring around me of any unjustified ambition ; I am quite unforced that my neighbor ’s tomatoes shall ripen a day or two ahead of mine if in issue they will collect blankets , quilts , sheet , and other protective material and pass icy minute spread them over tender plants scatter over an Akka or two of ground and drag around in the dew of the morning remove them , while I drink my toes by the ardor and translate my even newspaper .
Unless the clock time and the condition of the primer coat is wholly favorable , it will be well to plant only a portion of the seed at a time , allow enough for a second planting should the first give way to come up up or the young plants be destroyed in any way .
