EXERCISE 50. PLANNING THE HOME GARDEN 



Equipment: A 50-foot tape and some plain drawing 

 paper. 



Method: Carefully measure your home garden and lay 

 it off to scale on a plain sheet of paper. If the garden is 200 

 feet long and 100 feet wide, it may be laid off on the scale 

 of 1 inch on the paper for 10 feet, which will make the 

 drawing 10X20 inches. Every part of the plan should be 

 drawn to the same scale. Make a list of the garden crops 

 which you wish to grow, and calculate the area that should be 

 devoted to each. Finally, draw on your outline a plan for 

 the garden, showing where all of the crops are to be located 

 and the area that is to be devoted to each. 



Discussion : Wherever it is possible, every home should 

 have a plot of ground set aside for the growing of fresh 

 vegetables and small fruits. For the farm home the garden 

 should be large enough to permit of horse cultivation. 

 Here the rows should be long and wide apart. In the village 

 where the space is limited the rows may be placed close to- 

 gether and the plants given hand cultivation. 



A knowledge of the seasons and habits of growth of the 

 various vegetables will enable a gardener to take advantage 

 of two systems, known as companion and succession cropping. 

 These are designed to economize space, labor, and plant food 

 and to give an opportunity of producing a larger yield or a 

 greater variety on a certain area. 



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