CHAPTER XIV 

 FOLLOW-UP PLANTING 



BY this time many of you have harvested your 

 radishes and the ground is ready for another crop. 

 What shall we put in? Tomatoes, or cabbage, or 

 lima beans, or potatoes, or swiss chard; in fact, 

 anything you choose can now be planted in this 

 row. 



If the soil is packed down hard when you have 

 the radishes all out, it would be wise to fork it 

 over before you make a new gutter for the new seed. 



Lettuce and onion sets will be the next crops 

 out. These rows will look a little ragged while you 

 are pulling the crops, but never mind a market 

 garden generally does look ragged our object is 

 to get as many good vegetables from our garden 

 patch as we can, and to do this we must think ahead. 



Suppose you had decided to put tomatoes or 

 beans, or corn, or cabbage, or collards, or swiss 

 chard in these rows; by carefully considering how 

 far apart these new plants are to stand you could set 

 them in their places before all the early crops have 



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