Planning the Garden 



and fertilising as to make the quality of the soil 

 of secondary consideration, but if one can have 

 both at once then one is happy indeed. Tena- 

 cious, clayey soil or newly broken sod ground 

 should not, however, be undertaken by a woman, 

 such ground is a man's job. 



But it is the warm, sunny location that is vital 

 to the successful cultivation of the garden. All 

 the early vegetables — peas, lettuce, endive and the 

 like — call for abundant sunshine in the cool days 

 of early spring, and, as the season advances and 

 the fall chill is in the air at nightfall, then the 

 warm sunshine will hasten the maturity of such 

 late comers as tomatoes, winter squash, citron and 

 any late-sown vegetables that are used to succeed 

 the earlier growths. Again in the late days of 

 winter or early spring those vegetables that were 

 left in the ground for early use — the parsnips, 

 and salsify, will be available much earlier if given 

 a warm location where the ground thaws readily, 

 rather than a cold exposure that holds frost late 

 in the season. 



A piece of ground adjoining other cultivated 



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