Vegetable Growing in California 

 All The Year Round. 





EGETABLE growing offers oppor- 

 tunities in California as an all-the- 

 year-round pursuit. While there 

 are " best planting " months and 

 " best harvesting " months for the 

 various kinds of vegetables, yet in 

 the valley and foothill regions of 

 the State many of the well-known 

 vegetables can be planted or har- 

 vested any month of the year. Indeed, it is not 

 too much to say that no one who lives in the 

 country in the valley and foothill regions of Califor- 

 nia should ever buy vegetables for his table. He 

 can get his cabbages, his radishes, his turnips, his 

 onions, his peas and his lettuce fresh from his 

 own garden at any time of the year. Many other 

 vegetables he can get fresh from his own soil 

 in months when they are impossible or sold at 

 prohibitory prices in other states. For the man 

 who cultivates the soil in California the vege- 

 table garden is a great help in supplying the fam- 

 ily table and besides this a small area well tilled 

 with regard to getting choice vegetables on the 

 market at the time when they are greatest in de- 

 mand will add appreciably to his bank account 

 and return a more immediate income than almost 

 any branch of agricultural occupation in which he 

 could engage. 



Because of its unusual opportunities for con- 

 tinuous agriculture over a vast extent of country 

 California will some day become the producer in 

 vegetables for the whole West. Regarding the 

 opportunity for continuous vegetable growing at- 

 tention is specially called to climatic conditions 

 in California — the climate of California is not de- 

 termined by the distance north or south, but by 

 altitudes and the distance east and west. The 

 climate of California is unique in this respect, 

 Geography does not necessarily indicate climate 

 in California, as it does upon the Atlantic sea- 

 board. The United States Weather Bureau, at 

 the suggestion of the California Promotion Com- 

 mittee, has decided in its forecasts to divide the 

 State in valley, mountain and coastal districts 

 instead of north and south districts, as heretofore. 

 This will be a great advantage to the whole State 

 of California. Inquirers will get a better idea of 

 the region in which they propose to locate, in 

 whatever part of California that region is situated. 



