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omizing space. This is especially true of lettuce 

 and salad plants. Lettuce may be started under 

 cover in old berry boxes and the boxes then 

 plunged in the soil. 



Onions also gain greatly and about as much 

 labor is saved in thinning and weeding as it takes 

 to transplant. For fine grades, these gains are 

 important. The soil must be kept busy all the 

 time; if idle even for a week, weeds will grow 

 which steal the food from your paying crops. 



Ernest Rollenbeck says that as soon as early 

 peas are harvested he plants squash. If sweet 

 peas are grown, a row of onions may be grown 

 on each side of the peas, without detriment to 

 either. Late cabbage may be set in the rows of 

 early onions and make their growth after the 

 onion harvest. This gives three crops. 



To raise but one crop is risky; its failure may 

 ruin you. With a number of crops, what hurts 

 one may help another, and even a complete fail- 

 ure of one will not be so serious. 



Companion cropping grows two crops in the 

 same soil at the same time, one maturing early 

 and leaving the ground free for the main crop. 



