THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



ground is immediately planted to another crop 

 which in turn will all be harvested at one fell 

 swoop, and so on throughout the growing season. 

 Intercropping planting between rows is not prac- 

 tical in the home-use garden, where both rows 

 may be left partly standing for weeks, and essen- 

 tial cultivation is impeded; in market gardening, 

 when each crop is snatched from the ground the 

 minute it matures, it is perfectly feasible. Thus 

 not only multiple crops can be raised on the same 

 ground at the same time, but where a home-use 

 garden of high efficiency produces not more than 

 two crops a year, the market garden will grow 

 four or five. 



With the increasing efficiency of our fall and 

 winter gardens we have been able to can less and, 

 consequently, sell more and more. A benign circle 

 has been created: the more we raise for winter, 

 the more we can sell in summer; the more we can 

 sell, the more we can grow without taking more 

 acreage into the truck patch a consummation to 

 be avoided: the eternal temptation of the vege- 

 table garden is to plan and plant more than you 

 can care for. 



As with everything else on the farm there is no 

 comparing store-boughten vegetables with fresh 

 ones. Many perishable fruits and vegetables can- 

 not possibly get to town in prime condition since 

 they must be picked before they are ripe if they 



