THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 235 



Prepare another planting table containing spaces for 

 the dates on which you planted, the names of the vege- 

 tables, the varieties, the dates of harvest, and notes that 

 will help you in next year's work. Fill out the table 

 as the work progresses during the summer. Your table 

 should include the dates when plants were set out, also 

 when succession crops are sown. 



PLAN OF THE SCHOOL GAKDEN 



An area forty by sixty-four feet may be divided into 

 twenty plots, each four feet by eleven feet, that may be 

 used as individual gardens. It also contains space for 

 one large plot that may be used for experimental pur- 

 poses. Each of the small plots contains a thousandth 

 part of an acre, with a small allowance for waste. By 

 making the plots a convenient fractional part of an 

 acre, the rate per acre at which the crops are produced, 

 as well as the quantity of fertilizer needed for each plot 

 when the amount per acre is given, may be calculated 

 easily. If fertilizer is to be applied at the rate of one 

 ton per acre, the amount for each plot is found by divid- 

 ing two thousand by one thousand. The rate of crop 

 production may be obtained in the same way. 



The regular path is two feet wide ; it contains half 

 the land in the plot. When the succession crop is planted, 

 the path should be spaded up. No paths are needed for 

 the later crops, that stand from two to three feet apart, 

 or for cover crops. 



