CHAPTER XIV 



The Vegetable Garden 



Growing Plants for Setting Out — Digging and Preparing the Soil 

 — Sowing and Transplanting — Watering — General Principles of 

 Cultivation — Harvesting and Storing — Companion Crops — Suc- 

 cession Crops — Cultivation of the Chief Vegetables — Useful 

 Pointers for the Vegetable Grower — Labeling Plants 



[It will be noted that we have not mentioned varieties throughout this 



chapter. These are chosen from the catalogs of your favorite seedsmen to 



suit soil, location and individual preferences.! 



WHEN the Spring comes everybody thinks, or ought to think, 

 about gardens. Professor L. H. Bailey says: "The nature- 

 desire may be perpetual and constant, but the garden-desire 

 returns with every new Springtime." The possibilities of the garden 

 are very great, and the home or kitchen garden has become a national 

 and economic necessity as an adjunct to every home with a plot of 

 round, no matter how small. A bountiful provision of clean, newly 

 gathered produce, secured within a few yards of the kitchen door, 

 tends to diminish burdensome grocery and meat bills; and as they are 

 not subject to deterioration in transportation and by exposure on the 

 markets, home-grown vegetables are always crisp and tender and 

 retain their characteristic flavor. 



An Amateur's Vegetable Garden 

 All the space utilized and everything growing luxuriantly 



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