BOOK OF THE HOME GARDEN 



however, is always the best guide; watch the trees 

 and feel the soil, and talk with successful garden- 

 ers in your locality. 



We keep sowing vegetable seeds at different 

 times; for instance, we do not sow beans at the same 

 time we do radishes because beans need hot weather, 

 and rot in cold wet earth, while radishes like cool- 

 ness, so we have to "keep planting along" in our 

 vegetable gardens. 



Let us take a sample garden and I will show you 

 how to plant it too. We will choose a bed 6 feet by 

 12 feet ; this time we will run the rows the short way 

 of the bed because we will have more varieties and 

 will plant more times, and different kinds of vege- 

 tables take up different amounts of space. We will 

 begin at one end of our bed of course you have put 

 on humus and forked it under and limed it if need 

 be. If one end faces south or east, begin at that 

 end because we are going to put short plants in 

 here. If we saved that end for tall plants like 

 corn, they would shade the shorter plants too much. 



Make a gutter with a hoe handle, 18 inches from 

 the south or east end (be sure it is straight). We 

 will sow radishes in this, next lettuce, 18 inches 

 further away, and next beets, 18. inches away. That 

 is all we can plant while the weather is cool in this 



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