History of my tomato garden

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History of My Tomato Garden

Julia McCulloch

My Tomato Garden.

I joined the club again because I was in the work last year and liked it very much. I also made some money all my own.

On the sixteenth day of April I sowed Stone tomato seed in a canvassed tobacco bed. I transplanted my plants on the tenth day of May and again on the twentieth of May

My land was broke in March with a two horse plow.

My garden is an oblong thirty three feet by one hundred and thirty two feet long.

The land slopes to the South and I selected it because it was my brother's corn patch several years ago and had been heavily manured and had been in clover the preceding year. The soil is grey and six inches

deep. The subsoil is yellow.

In May the land was harrowed three times with se[illegible] harrow. My land was in fine condition when I set my plants the twenty second of May. My rows were about three feet apart.

When they were plowed the second time I had sixty six pounds of piedmont fertilizer 822 drilled by the pl[illegible]

My garden was plowed four times with cultivator and I hoed four times.

The season was ideal for raising tomatoes as far as insects and diseases were concerned.

I only pruned my plants to the fifth leaf and I did not stake them.

My tenth acre was a long ways from the house, so I picked the tomatoes in boxes and they were hauled to the house. I sold no fresh fruit and used none for the table.

I saw my first bloom on the tenth of June, and first tomato on