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MAKING A PLAN 



E best gardens generally are those started on 

 A paper, with a pencil. Just like the builder of 

 a house goes by a blue print, so should the maker of a 

 garden follow a carefully thought-out plan. 



Draw your garden plan to a scale, say one-eighth of 

 an inch for every foot of ground. Lay out the garden in 

 fifteen-foot beds, running the rows across the bed. Put 

 a two-foot path in both front and back, where you can 

 turn with the wheelhoe or deposit weeds, stones, etc., 

 prior to their removal. 



Run the rows any way you like east and west or 

 north and south it makes no difference. Place them as 

 tar apart as is suggested under the various chapters. A 

 good general rule to follow is to allow as much space be- 

 tween the rows as equals the height of the plants when 

 fully grown. For instance, bush beans grow about 

 eighteen inches tall. Then allow from eighteen inches 

 to two feet between the rows of bush beans. 



