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hint of a fall crop of tender vegetables like melons, beans, corn, 

 etc., planted in July to come on fast in the heat, followed by fall 

 planting of the hardy list for winter use, these two crops will be 

 gained before the outbreak of the usual "garden fever," which 

 rallies all garden forces in February and March. The agencies to 

 demonstrate this broader conception of our gardening possibilities 

 are Will and Work and Water, to which allusion has been made in 

 a previous chapter. 



Family Garden Programmes. It will surprise any one who 

 carries out rapid succession of plantings to see how much desirable 

 food can be secured from a very small area. An enthusiastic 

 gardener at Lakeside, San Diego county, reported that his garden 

 of fifty feet square supplied enough vegetables, excepting potatoes, 

 for a large family, and required less than half a day's attention 

 during a week. He grew the following vegetables, planting each 

 month in the year as follows : 



January After the 20th, turnips, cabbage seed, carrots, lettuce, peas. 



February Radishes, beets, salsify, spinach, onion seed or sets. 



March Potatoes (in field), turnips, cabbage, lettuce, peas, cabbage 

 plants. 



April Cucumbers, watermelons, muskmelons, squashes, tomato plants, 

 radishes, beets, salsify, corn, beans, sweet potatoes, cabbage seed. 



May Carrots, lettuce, peas, onion seed or sets. 



June Radishes, beets, beans, corn, salsify, cabbage plants. 



July Carrots, lettuce, cabbage seed. 



August Potatoes (in field), corn, beans, radishes. 



September Cabbage plants, peas, turnips, salsify, and carrots. 



October Beets, beans, onion sets, lettuce. 



November Turnips, spinach, salsify. 



December Winter radishes, peas, lettuce. 



He has the advantage of a very short period of frosts, and 

 light ones at that. He plants in rows eighteen inches apart, irri- 

 gates his garden every ten days in trenches and cultivates twice a 

 week. In favorable seasons he has natural moisture from Novem- 

 ber to April or May. If the rainfall is light he cultivates twice a 

 week. 



Another arrangement for succession is that practiced by a 

 vineyardist in the Santa Cruz mountains, who grows vegetables in 

 his vineyard. He plows one furrow in the center, between the vines, 

 manured in the furrow and covered with a furrow plowed each 

 side. The bed thus formed is planted in November with a row, 



