Frontier Fridays: Gardening Tips from Our Ancestors

It's SPRING!  Perfect time for some gardening tips from those pioneers. 

*When planting carrot seeds which are so fine, mix with radish seeds.  The radish will be ready to pull before the carrots. 

*Plant radish and cucumbers seeds together to keep bugs off the cucumbers.

*Two tablespoons of Epsom Salts and 1 tablespoon soda to a gallon of water as a spray for the bean beetle.

*To keep worms off cabbages - 1 pint saltpeter and 3 pints of salt.  Dissolve in 6 gallons of water.  Sprinkle on cabbage as needed as a never fail proof against cabbage vermin.

*Before working in the garden or doing other rough work rub your finger nails over a piece of soap.  This will prevent earth getting in under your nails and the soap will help clean your hands more easily.

*If dogs prowl across your flower bed, stamp a few moth balls into the ground around your favorite bed and they will avoid it.

*Turn fruit jars oover earliest planted vegetables.  The will come up quicker.

Try some in your garden!  Happy Spring :)