23 MV HANDKERCHIEF GARDEN. 



companying diagram shows how the first lap is 

 made. The entire space, 25x60, is laid out in three 

 beds, with two footpaths, 12 inches wide, between 

 them (and a good plan is to make these paths of 

 plank). One bed, 11 feet wide in the centre, and 

 two of 6 feet on each side, enables you to reach 

 every plant with a hoe from the paths. On the plan 

 these three beds are divided off into smaller beds, 

 each for one or more crops. Beginning at the upper 

 left hand (northwest) corner, the first bed is to con- 

 tain six rows of the first planting of bush beans. 

 (The area of each bed is marked in the beds.) Next, 

 south of these, are eight rows of early beets; next 

 come five rows of early carrots. These three beds 

 are planted as early as the weather permits. The 

 next bed. No. IV., is left empty till ten days after the 

 first sowing of beans, and makes the second planting 

 of beans. No. V. is planted thickly with spinach, in 

 rows I foot apart. As soon as the plants are three 

 inches high pull half of them out and send them to 

 the cook. The little, half-grown plants make an 

 excellent dish, and the plants left behind have more 

 room. 



I tried this plan last year, sowing spinach very thick 

 and making the first thinning when the plants were 

 very small. It took 500 plants to make a dishful, but 

 they were delicious. Two thinnings and one final 

 picking of the half mature gave a very large return 

 in a very few weeks from a small space. 



Bed No. VI. is to have four rows (north and south) 

 of cabbages, the first row i foot from the path, the 

 next two 3 feet apart and the last within i foot of the 

 other path. Between each row is a single row of let- 

 tuce plants, and between lettuce and cabbages can be 

 planted six rows of radish or spinach. Don't be 

 afraid ; you cannot have too much. Pull it up as 



