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the ground actually produced three crops in one 

 season. 



To still further carry out the plan of close cropping 

 I planted summer squash between the rows of peas 

 (second planting) and found no trouble from inter- 

 ference, the peas being pulled up before the squashes 

 wanted the room. I had also under way a trial of 

 peas and beans (Laxton's Early and Early Mohawk), 

 the beans being planted in hills between every other 

 row of peas and the peas trained away from the 

 beans. The experiment worked well. The beans 

 were planted just as the peas began to flower. 



Another experiment in crowding the land was to 

 plant onion sets in rows and quite thick in the row, 

 and to plant cauliflower plants between the rows 

 when the onions were about six inches high. The 

 demands of the table gradually used up the onions 

 by pulling up every other plant, and the open foliage 

 of the onion did not seem to annoy the cauliflowers. 

 Finally the onions all disappeared, and then the 

 cauliflowers ripened and were pulled up and made 

 room for celery plants in August. 



Lettuce plants set out from seed box in window 

 were planted in April between young strawberry 

 plants and were well headed before the strawberry 

 plants began to run. Among other stray bits of in- 

 formation I picked up the fact that if bush beans are 

 injured, as mine were, by early cold rains, it is per- 

 fectly easy to transplant the young plants to repair 

 broken rows. In a home lot space is too valuable to 

 allow broken rows to mature. It's better to trans- 

 plant and use the space with something else. 



Another bit of crowding was arranged in this way: 

 Two rows of spinach were sown (east and west) near 

 the fence and parallel with it. As soon as well up, 

 early cabbages were set out between the rows. The 



