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10 TEXAS ALMANAC.
MARCE.
THE PLANTATION.
FaoM the 10th to the 20th begin to plant cotton-the season being favora-
ble-and put in, during this month, from a third to a half of the intended crop.
In the more southern portion of the State the entire crop is in the ground by
this time, if the season has Euited. Oats may still be sown, but are uncertain
at this late season. Continue to sow, at intervals of two weeks, a small
extent of corn in broad drills. No one can form an idea of how great is the
advantage to the stock of a place, the having plenty of such green fodder as
a few acres of drilled corn will yield, until they try it. The wonder, then, is,
how they have previously done without it. Complete the bedding of sweet
potatoes, and prepare the ridges for the young plants, which will now be
ready for drawing, if the roots were bedded in January or February. Many
persons form hills for their sweet potatoes, and plant altogether in that way.
We have found them much easier of cultivation in ridges, and producing
equally well. As often as an opportunity of dark, showery weather occurs,
plant out the sprouts from the beds, putting them about twelve inches apart,
or just a hoe-width. The beds will afford three or four drawings of plants or
sprouts, provided that after each drawing an inch of rich, fresh soil is spread
over them, and the sprouts have been drawn with care, holding the potato
down with one hand while the sprouts are drawn with the other.
GARDEN CALENDAR.-MAR c .
KITOCEN GARDEN.-Central Texas, etc.-During a backward spring, most
of the work directed to be done last month should more properly be done
this month. If any early cabbage plants yet remain in the beds, set them
out the first favorable weather; the Battersea will succeed the early York.
Okra must be got in by the middle of the month; if seed is plenty, sow
in drills, four feet apart, in rich ground; if scarce, drop half a dozen seed in
hills three or four feet apart. When large enough, they must be thinned out
to a single plant. In fact, its cultivation is precisely the same as that of
cotton. The kidney or snap-bean is also an important item; in all its many
varieties it is productive and nutritious, a sure crop, and easily grown. A
gallon of seed will plant enough to give a large force a full supply for two or
three weeks. Some of the tall-growing or pole sorts, planted by the corn, at
its second working, yield well and bear longer than the dwarf kinds. They
run upon the corn, without injuring it. The crowder, the goose-crop, the
white, and some of the other sorts of cow peas, should also now be planted.
Their value is sufficiently well known. Toward the end of the month, plant
melons, squashes, cucumbers, sinap-beans, lima or butter, and Carolina or
seewee beans, etc. Sow cabbage, carrots, beets, parsnips, salsify, tomatoes,
peppers, radish, lettuce, etc.
Continue, as in last month, to plant cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, squash,
okra, egg-plants, corn, etc. Plant beans of all the pole kinds, and also a few
dwarfs. Spinach, radish, lettuce, 'may yet be sown in rich, cool, moist
ground, but will soon run to seed. Drumhead cabbage may yet be planted
out, and will form good heads if well tended.
We have occasional summer droughts in Texas, greatly damaging to the
garden. It is, therefore, well whenever even a small stream or spnng can be
made available for irrigation, or where a good large tank can be formed, to
make use of these advantages, to insure a good supply of vegetables at all
seasons.
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/12/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.