Planning the Garden 



heavy to move. A good rain, however, should 

 always precede the planting, if possible, as newly 

 worked ground is not sufficiently settled for sow- 

 ing seed and not so desirable for setting out of 

 plants. 



The arrangement of the vegetables in the gar- 

 den has much to do with the convenience of car- 

 ing for it. It is always a good arrangement to 

 plant the early vegetables, such as lettuce, rad- 

 ishes, beets, endive and onions at the end of the 

 garden nearest the house where they are most 

 easily available as one has occasion to use them in 

 preparing a meal. Then, too, all these small 

 things are planted a standard distance apart — 

 usually twelve or fifteen inches, — twelve if the 

 gardener is addicted to trowsers, fifteen if skirts 

 are in evidence, for it is difficult to work in a 

 narrower space, especially among the tender tops 

 of seedling onions, in petticoats. So, with the 

 rows running north and south, that the vegetables 

 may receive the greatest possible amount of sun- 

 shine, and the vegetables planted in consecutive 

 rows of increasing distances apart, one has a 



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