Rural School Leaflet 1059 



growing plants set in the garden later. Beets, carrots, lettuce, onions, 

 parsnips, peas, radishes, and early turnips should be planted early. Since 

 none of these are tall growing, they can all be planted on the southern half 

 of the garden. We remember that one of these vegetables, parsnips, is 

 treated differently from the others in that it is left in the ground and dug 

 during the winter. Since we are going to clean up our garden plot in the 

 fall and shoiild not like to have a row left somewhere in the middle, we 

 place the parsnips on the very southern edge of the garden, making an 

 additional row. 



We decide on a row of onions, a half row each of carrots, early beets, 

 early turnips, and spinach, a row of lettuce and radishes, and a row of 

 peas, and indicate them on the plan. This completes the first group of 

 vegetables, and leaves all the ground to the north unoccupied and in good 

 shape to be raked over occasionally so as to kill weeds and preserve 

 moisture before sowing the second group of seeds, which must not be 

 planted until all danger of frost is over. This group includes vine vege- 

 tables, sweet corn, and beans. The young plants from tomato, cabbage, 

 and parsley seed, sown in the house, will be ready to set out at the same 

 time. We need only a few plants of parsley, and, since they grow the entire 

 season, they might well be placed in a few feet of the parsnip row at the 

 south side of the garden. We must provide for two plantings of sweet 

 corn, and we should have a second sowing of peas. All these things 

 should be kept in mind as we begin next the northern row of Group I 

 to indicate on our plan a row of peas for a second planting, a row of snap 

 beans, a row of early cabbage, a thirty-foot row of tomato plants, and 

 two thirty-foot rows of com. These — except the second planting of 

 com, which, of course, should be a week or two later than the first plant- 

 ing of com in the outside row — the cucumbers, the summer squash, 

 and the muskmelons can all be sown about the same time, after all 

 danger of frost is over. 



This completes the garden for early summer. It is quite possible, 

 however, that several of the vegetables will be through bearing about the 

 first of July, and we can fill their places with late vegetables for winter. 

 Begin at the southern side of the garden, look over the plan, and decide 

 which vegetables may be replaced and with what we shall replace them. 

 In actual practice our plan may not work out in all cases because of a back- 

 ward season or for some other reason, but it is well to be prepared, and no 

 ground should lie idle if we can help it. The parsley, the parsnips, the 

 onions, and the carrots will surely remain all season; and probably the early 

 beets, the early tumjips, and the spinach \vill not be out in time for anything 

 else to be sown. Lettuce and radishes may be followed by late cabbage, 

 which can be set even before all the lettuce has been used. The first 



