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plowed at once and its planting in one day proves both 

 impracticable and impossible, as much ground should be 

 worked over lightly each day with forks and spade as 

 will be planted that day. 



The hardiest vegetables, which may be sown as soon 

 as frost is out of the ground, are radish, lettuce, spinach, 

 onions from seeds or sets, carrots, beets, and smooth- 

 seeded peas. Explicit directions as to how to sow and 

 cover them will be found under the respective chapters. 

 It pays best, in connection with most of them, to sow 

 short rows often, say a week apart, rather than to sow 

 large space all at once. The exception to this are peas 

 and spinach of which several rows should be planted at a 

 time, because their yield per row of short length is hardly 

 sufficient for a meal. Experience in this matter will 

 prove the most dependable teacher. 



About a week before the last frost is scheduled for your 

 section, it is safe to sow a few rows each of bush beans and 

 sweet corn. Two rows each fifteen feet long, planted a 

 week apart from May 2Oth until middle of July, will 



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