The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



forth. If one can run out and cultivate a row of 

 lettuce or train up a row of peas while waiting for 

 the irons to heat or the kettle to boil, then one 

 will find the sum total of the garden work far less 

 onerous than where one must calculate on going 

 over the entire plat, or a stated portion of it, at 

 one operation. 



A location close to the house, more or less 

 secluded, that one may work free from interrup- 

 tion and espionage and where the vegetables may 

 bask in the sun from early morning till late after- 

 noon, is desirable, and this is best achieved in a 

 southern exposure with the garden rows running 

 north and south. 



If the garden plot is protected by buildings or 

 a high fence, or a wind-break of evergreen on the 

 north it will afford a favorable position for the 

 necessary hotbeds and cold frames and the close 

 relationship of the two will work for efficiency in 

 handling. 



A warm, mellow, sandy loam is the ideal soil 

 for the vegetable garden, but even a poor soil may 

 be so built up and redeemed by proper cultivation 



