Home-Garden Planning 



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* The tools required for such a garden are the same as those listed under 

 plan 1, except that the garden line should be twice the length of that 

 required for the latter, and two hotbed sashes, with boards, manure, and 

 other material for a pit, should be provided. It is often possible to have 

 the garden plowed with horses instead of dug by hand , and some harrowing 

 with horses can be done. 



It would be to the advantage of the gardener to procure a wheeled hand- 

 planter and a wheeled combination tool. These are not necessary for a 

 garden of this size, but they would save time in planting and cultivating. 



Fig. 52. — Celery dirt-banked, or blanching. At the left a board blancher 



About two cords of well-rotted stable manure are needed for a garden 

 of this size, and fifty to one hundred pounds of a high-grade commercial 

 fertilizer. 



Plan 3 



In a large garden about no by 200 feet in size, such as is used by the 

 farmer and the large landowner, the rows should run the long way so 

 as to economize time in cultivation. The garden must be arranged in 

 such a manner that practically all cultivation can be done with horse 

 power, owing to the fact that the average farmer can spare but little 

 time for the more intensive methods of gardening. It might, however, 

 be to the farmer's interest to give a little more time to better gardening, 

 considering that probably twenty-five to forty per cent of the living of 

 his family is derived from the garden. The garden does not demand 

 much time ; half an hour to an hour a day of thorough work will keep it in 

 good condition after the preparation and planting are finished. 



