CHAPTER XVII 

 LATE CROPS 



Now comes the time when we must begin to think 

 of late crops vegetables which will grow when the 

 nights are cool, and will give us food late into the 

 fall. Some of our crops have already ripened and 

 have been taken out, and others will soon be ripe, 

 so there will be many empty spaces. 



By this time you surely see how our gardens can 

 be made to work all the time, how we can plant a 

 new crop after one has been harvested and then 

 still another if there is time and growing weather 

 enough. In the row where radishes grew in the 

 early spring we could have beans after them. 

 When the beans are done we can plant spinach, so 

 this one little strip of land can grow three crops in 

 a single season. This is good gardening, and is 

 sometimes called "intensive gardening" because we 

 make the land work all the time. 



There is another way to keep our crops coming 

 along fast without waiting for one crop to be en- 

 tirely ripe, and that is to plant a second crop right 



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