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which has given produce. In the garden clear up all that has 

 matured of the winter plantings, irrigate well, plow and quickly 

 fine the surface and put in beans, beets, cabbage plants, corn, melons, 

 potatoes, squash, tpjnato^dajits, and a succession of small truck, and 

 be sure that they do not lack moisture, or their courses will be short 

 and unprofitable. 



TABULAR SHOWINGS OF TIMES OF PLANTING. 



To afford the reader a condensed view of the facts noted in 

 the foregoing suggestions for the months, tabular showings are pre- 

 pared. These are not made from theoretical generalizations, but 

 are prepared from records of actual practice which the writer has 

 been collecting for the last forty years. The work of several hun- 

 dred growers is condensed into the tables which follow. Separate 

 showings are made for southern California and for the valley and 

 foothill portions of the upper part of the state. It will be seen that 

 they strikingly agree. There are practically frostless regions near 

 the coast in southern California which are not found elsewhere in 

 the state, although it is only with the tenderest growths that the 

 difference becomes apparent. Other vegetables take about the same 

 courses in early regions, both north and south. Still it is well to 

 reduce the fact to a set of records such as these tables embody. 



TIMES FOR PLANTING CERTAIN VEGETABLES IN VALLEY AND FOOTHILL 

 REGIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



Beans 

 Beets 



Celery 

 Corn 



Eggplant * 2 .. * 2 * 2 *2 



Lettuce * * * * * * * * * * * * 



Melons * *3 *s * * * 



Onions * * * * * * * * * * * * 



Peas * * * * * * * * * 



Potatoes * * * * 2 * 2 .. * * * * * * 



Potatoes, Sweet * * * 



Radishes ************ 



Salsify .... * * * * * 



Spinach * * * * * * * * * * * * 



Squash * *3 * * * 



""""Tomatoes ...... '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 '. '. *** *a *s * * * 



Turnips. ..'..'.'........... * .. * * * *' * * * * * * 



1 On naturally moist or irrigated land. 



* Frostless situations near southern coast. 



1 Taking the chances of occasional frost and replanting in some places. 



