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may become available by middle of August for such crops 

 as spinach, turnips, winter radishes, or even celery. Any 

 of these will yield the crop where frost does not check 

 vegetation before middle of October. 



Section No. 2, devoted principally to root crops as 

 shown above, of a long growing season should be planned 

 in rows, two feet apart, so as to permit cultivation with a 

 wheelhoe during the latter part of the season. This dis- 

 tance also makes possible the growing of a crop of extra 

 early vegetables between the long season root crops 

 early in the spring. For illustration, beets, carrots, 

 parsnips, etc., have very small tops while in the seedling 

 stage. Throughout May, June, and early July, such 

 vegetables as radishes, lettuce, green onions, etc., may be 

 grown between the rows. 



Section No. 3 will be the busiest of them all, perhaps, 

 because starting with early spring crops, the ground will 

 become available again within sixty or ninety days, when 

 other midseason crops of short season of bearing, like 

 bush beans, early beets, early carrots, early sweet corn, 



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