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method of all is to sow in cigar boxes, which can 

 be placed in your kitchen windows. If you intend 

 to plant cauliflower, or celery, or eggplant, these 

 also must be added at this time. 



In March or April, just as soon as the ground is 

 workable, sow beets, carrots, peas, early potatoes, 

 spinach, radish, and early turnips. Put your peas 

 in five inches deep, and see that your ground is not 

 only well underdrained, but has good surface drain- 

 age. When dashing showers come, they should be 

 caught at once in prepared runways, and carried 

 off without washing the garden soil. This is es- 

 pecially necessary if you are cultivating a hillside. 

 One half the compost, or fertilizer, is often carried 

 away by a single dashing shower. Besides this, early 

 seeds are washed out, or hopelessly buried under 

 several inches of dirt. If you will grow your own 

 onions, they must be sown in April. A second 

 planting must come about two weeks after the first. 

 A very little later I add corn and beans — that is, 

 about the end of April — with the understanding 

 that they may get nipped by late frosts. If they do, 

 we must plant over again; if they don't, we gain a 

 month in these delicious vegetables. 



About the middle of May we put in our second 



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