PRODUCTIVE 

 VEGETABLE GROWING 



CHAPTER I 



TYPES OF VEGETABLE GROWING 



There are two distinct types of vegetable growing, amateur 

 and commercial. In amateur or home vegetable gardening, the 

 primary object is to supply the home table with vegetables of 

 high quality. A large assortment and continuous supply are de- 

 sirable. In commercial vegetable growing, the primary object is 

 to supply the demands of the market in the way that will be most 

 remunerative to the grower. The assortment may be either large 

 or small and the supply either continuous or intermittent. There 

 are really three types of commercial vegetable growing: (1) The 

 growing of a general assortment of vegetables for local market, 

 (2) the growing of one or a few special crops, mainly for shipment 

 to distant markets, and (3) the growing of vegetables for canning 

 or pickling factories. 



MARKET GARDENING 



The term ''market gardening" is usually employed to designate 

 the growing of a general assortment of vegetables for supplying 

 a local market, the term ''local market" meaning a market within 

 driving distance from the point of production. If the local market 

 is a comparatively small town, the market garden in that vicinity 

 does not differ materially from a properly planned home garden, 

 except that it is larger. A general assortment of vegetables is 

 grown, so that vegetables of some kind may be marketed at almost 

 all seasons of the year. Much of the land produces only one crop 

 a year, and none of it more than two crops. Sometimes the land 

 is manured once a year and sometimes less frequently. 



Where the local market is a large city, the land available for 

 gardening purposes within convenient driving distances from the 

 market is likely to be exceedingly high priced, so that very in- 

 tensive methods of culture must be practiced in order to secure 



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