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The Cornell Reading-Courses 



Garden iio 



There is no good reason why production from a garden of this size 

 cannot begin early in the spring and last through until the next 

 spring. Ten well-built hotbeds, each hotbed of one sash, as outlined in 

 the plan, may be devoted to the following plants: lettuce in two beds, 

 later in one than in the other; in other beds, radishes, beets, very early 

 spinach, and carrots, respectively, one kind of vegetable to each bed ; in 

 another, plants for renewing any of the above-named; the three remain- 

 ing beds should be given over to the raising of plants for transplanting. 



Cold-frames can follow the hotbeds, one or two being used for raising 

 very early sweet corn, one or more for early beans, others for cucumbers, 

 cauliflower, spinach, cabbage, late beets, onions (rare ripes), and so on. 

 Enough frames should be left empty to provide places for transplanting 

 seedlings raised in the hotbeds. After one crop is harvested another may 

 be planned to follow, and so on throughout the season. It is by such 

 planning, successfully carried out, that the greatest profit is obtained from 

 a garden. 



The herb patch should contain ten or twelve of the kinds of herbs most 

 desired, the rows preferably running the short way of the bed. 



Interplanting in a garden of this kind is practiced only between plants 

 in the rows unless one has the time to devote to more intensive culture, 

 in which case there is plenty of space for succession or companion cropping 

 of the highest type. If time is limited, as it generally is on the farm, 

 interplanting can be done away with entirely. 



The number of hotbeds and cold-frames can be reduced. Enough of 

 these should be provided, however, to produce seedlings for transplanting, 

 allowing the crops to be brought to maturity outside in the garden. 



