26 GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES 



are appreciated, shorten the space for beetroots and plant 

 a few of these along the edge of the plot. C is reserved 

 for cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, and turnips. Give 

 cabbages five yards, cauliflowers two yards, broccoli 

 three yards, and turnips two yards. No space has yet 

 been found for beans and peas. Steal a narrow strip of 

 ground all along the north or western edge of the plot 

 and raise these leguminoseB there. 



Keep a copy of the plan you have drawn up so that 

 next year you will know exactly how to arrange the 

 second season's crops. Where A comes this year, next 

 year it will be B and the year following C. Similarly B 

 becomes C and A in the two ensuing seasons and C 

 changes to A and B. The bean and pea plot will remain 

 in the same situation, but it is well to dig in a good deal 

 of fresh soil each year. 



These are the broad lines on which you must arrange 

 your cropping. It is a scientific but somewhat wasteful 

 method which in these days of scarcity may be departed 

 from on occasions. For instance, sow lettuces between 

 parsnips as the latter are slow growing ; put broad beans 

 between rows of potatoes ; fill up the plot cleared of 

 potatoes or onions with broccoli, Brussels sprouts, 

 borecole, etc. ; plant vegetable marrows where the 

 seedlings have gone from the seed bed ; grow leeks on a 

 disused broad bean bed ; sow winter spinach after 

 turnips ; plant endives after shallots and celery after 

 spring cabbages. Keep the ground always as fully 

 occupied as possible. 



A careful system of rotation is of no avail unless it be 

 supplemented with suitable manuring. Each year, dig 

 plot A as deeply as the soil will allow and incorporate, in 



