PLAN OF THE GARDEN 273 



corn, melons and squashes will therefore be omitted, and the garden 

 devoted chiefly to such crops as lettuce, radishes, parsley, cress, 

 mustard, beets, chard, carrots, onions from sets, string beans, and 

 turnips; though cabbage, spinach, peas, peppers, tomatoes, and 

 even cucumbers may sometimes be included. If tomatoes are 

 grown they are trained in an upright position, so that compara- 

 tively little ground space is occupied. 



Plan of the Garden. — The dimensions of a city back yard 

 garden will vary with the amount of land available for the purpose; 



-o o o- 



Ouior\ Stts— 6 inches from edge of qordt 



-Radishes — Followed, by tomatoes 

 EarlL) beets 



Early bects- 



Lcttu.cc — Followed by tomatoes- 



Mustard or Cress 



D warf peas 



f Onion icts — Followed by peppers 



p Dwarf peas 



/o- Spinach — Followed by atnng beans — Followed by lettuce— 



// — Elarly turnips 



/Z 5pinacW — Followed by string beans- rollowed by lettuce- 



/3 Ea r I y co r r o t 3 



14 Parsley 



/S —Lettuce— Second planting 



l(,— Chard. — 



;j' — — Rodishes— Second planting 



IS Early cabbages— Fo II owed by late string beans- 



1^ ^Radishes— Third plontmg- 



G O O O O 



Fig. 166. — Suggested plan for a back yard garden where space is limited. 



and the selection of vegetables will be determined partly by the 

 taste of the gardener and partly by the limitations of space. A 

 selection of vegetables and their arrangement for a garden twenty 

 by twenty-five feet are suggested in the accompanying plan (Fig. 

 166). The rows are to run lengthwise the area. The original 

 planting of rows 1 to 14 inclusive is to be made as soon as 

 the ground can be worked in the spring, that is, about April 1, 

 in central latitudes. Rows 15 to 18 are to be planted from 

 two to three weeks later, and row 19 is to be planted about 

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