GATHERING THE CROPS 



quarter-inch steam pipe; and if the weather comes 

 off warm in the morning the pipes of hot water 

 will remain hot; while steam heat can be imme- 

 diately shut off and can be let on again at any 

 moment. With water it takes from one to two 

 hours to get the pipes warm again after being 

 cooled off.* 



GATHERING THE CROPS 



In market gardening the term " harvest" cannot 

 be applied as it was in olden times to the gathering 

 of the grain and other crops in the fall of the year. 

 Under modern usages there is no real season of 

 harvesting, but, on the contrary, the "seed-time 

 and harvest" seasons, both of them, extend the 

 whole year round. 



Much experience is required to enable one to 

 know just when to harvest market-garden crops, 

 and this does not always or solely depend on their 

 stage of maturity. The market .gardener of to-day 

 would say that the time to harvest a crop is when 

 it will bring the most money. Although, of course, 

 there are some vegetables that cannot be gathered 



*Consult Chapter Seven. 



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