ROTATION OF CROPS IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 407 



ROTATION OF CROPS IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



W. G. BEARDSLEY, CAMDEN PI.ACE. 



For annual crops, such as potatoes, corn, pumpkins or squash, 

 manure for potatoes and follow with sweet corn — sweet corn is 

 considered a crop that draws hard on the soil ; pumpkins or squash 

 will follow very well after potatoes, with manure in the hill. 



For summer crops in the garden, commencing with spinach, 

 set onions, radishes, lettuce and peas. Spinach is sowed as a first 

 crop on ground that is well manured and can be followed with 

 beets, carrots, melons or cucumbers for pickles. 



Radishes can be raised one crop after another the season 

 through, for market. To have some ready for sale all the time 

 they should be sown every ten days. Radishes will be large 

 enough for market in twenty-five to thirty days, and by going 

 twice over the bed you get nearly all the crop that is salable. 



You can follow onion sets with tomatoes or rutabagas. If 

 onions are a little late pull every fifth row and put in your tomato 

 plants. 



Rutabagas can be sown as late as the first of July. Beets or 

 carrots will make a late crop, if sown bv the first of July or even 

 by the middle. 



Peas. The early varieties can be followed with rutabagas. I 

 have in my mind now a neighbor that makes a nice thing out of 

 rutabagas sowed after his early peas. An early variety of sweet 

 corn, after the later crop of peas, will make a good crop of fodder, 

 and if not planted too thick it will make very good ears, and it 

 makes the best of fodder for the Jersey cow. The blue top white 

 globe turnip can be sown after peas. They can be sown as late as 

 the 24th of July and make a good crop. 



Cabbage is a good autumn crop and with ground well ma- 

 nured with cow manure is a good crop to raise. 



These suggestions are made in due faith that the season is fa- 

 vorable ; sometimes it is very hard to grade crops to suit the dry 

 weather, and the months of June and July are susceptible of dry 

 or wet weather. 



Mr. O. M. Lord : I would like to ask a question. I had a 

 very fine crop of rutabagas, but they were so bitter they were en- 

 tirely unmarketable. 



Mr. Beardsley: My opinion is you planted them too early. 



Mr. Lord: What time should they be planted? 



Mr. Beardsley: The last of May to the first of June. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot: I think if Mr. Lord had put his turnips 

 on new ground he would have had a better quality. Old ground 



