Planting Seed in the Open Ground 



appear in from three to five days, thus marking 

 the rows so that there will be no difficulty in fol- 

 lowing them. When this is done it will not be 

 necessary to use ground especially for planting 

 radishes so that there will be a saving in room 

 that may be utilized to advantage for other vege- 

 tables. Lettuce, too, may be grown to advantage 

 by planting a short strip of seed at the end of 

 rows of other vegetables, where full rows are not 

 required, as this saves space in the garden and 

 the lettuce if placed at the ends of the rows near- 

 est the house is easily accessible and does away 

 with the necessity of walking on the garden after 

 it has been cultivated, a thing the careful gar- 

 dener avoids. 



With the intensive gardening practised on the 

 small plot where the vegetables are planted in 

 close rows from a foot to two feet apart, the 

 ground should be at all times in a fine tilth, free 

 from unworked strips and trodden paths. It is 

 of little value to cut off the weeds with the hoe 

 or cultivator if they are to be trodden back in 

 the ground and so given a new lease of hf e. The 



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