CALIFORNIA GARDEN CALENDAR. 143 



NOVEMBER. 



Still plant for succession. Peas, lettuce, cabbage, onions, 

 beets, spinach, salsify, turnips. The Coast valleys are now 

 usually moist enough to carry all these hardy vegetables 

 without irrigation, for late winter and early spring use. 

 Asparagus roots are in shape for planting. Potatoes, 

 beans, egg-plant and tomatoes are planted in frostless 

 places for early crop. 



DECEMBER. 



The higher lands of the interior valley are usually ready 

 for the rainfall garden. Beets, cabbage, cauliflower, car- 

 rots, lettuce, onions, peas, radishes and turnips are hardy, 

 though some roots sown at this time will in some places 

 go to seed in the spring instead of enlarging. Potatoes 

 are planted on slopes, well out of hard frosts. In north- 

 erly coast valleys the soil is often too cold and wet to 

 make seed sowing wise. In such places the growth gets a 

 poor start. This depends greatly, however, upon the 

 character of the rainy season for that particular year. 



JANUARY. 



On warmer, drier valley lands in regions of light rain- 

 fall or on protected hillsides, plantings of beets, cabbage, 

 carrots, peas, turnips, lettuce and onions are usually wise. 

 In colder regions lettuce and onions and radishes are 

 hardy, and thrive if raised out of the wet, and cabbage, 

 cauliflower, pepper, celery, tomato seed should go into 

 seed-beds to grow plants for later planting out. It is the 

 first great potato planting month for regions of light 

 rainfall or on warm, well-drained slopes in regions of 

 heavier rains. But on low valley lands in wet regions, 

 January is often too stormy and cold for open-air work, 

 as has just been said of December. 

 FEBRUARY. 



February is the great planting month, for everything 

 but the very tender plants, like beans, corn, tomatoes, 

 peppers, the squash family, etc., can now proceed with as- 



