CW era gardening tips from Ada's Journal

[Bonny Blue Flag]

VALUABLE FACTS

-Sow lettuce in all your plant beds, it will prevent the fly and worms from destroying the plants.
-Drop a few flax seeds in each potato hill; it lessens, if not entirely, prevents the ravage of the potato bug.
-Do not destroy or drive away the moles and birds from your garden and you will have better vegetables and fewer worms.
-Do not stick or train up your tomato vines and you will have more and better fruit. If the vines run too much, clip the runners.
-A pound of mule is as easily raised as a pound of beef, and is worth five times as much. The mule can be put on the market at two years old, the beef at four.
-Sow English peas very thick if you wish a good crop. Peas fail in the South only from thin sowing. Sowed early and thick and on moderately rich ground they will never fail to give satisfaction.
-Sow your turnips, beats and radishes thick in drill and do not thin them out unitl they get large enough to use and you will get about four crops from the same ground.
Pull out as they get large enough to use.


-No other spring medicine has won for itself such universal confidence as Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It is the most powerful combination of vegetable alternatives every offered to the public, and is acknowledged by the medical profession to be the best blood purifier.

(I hate commercials...don't you?)

--BBF

[Michael19103]

Yes, but was Ayer's Sarsaparilla an effective anesthetic during, um, limb operations?
Glad I didn't live then....