QUESTIONS 277 



QUESTIONS 



1. What are the advantages of planning a garden before starting to plant it? 



2. How should vegetables be grouped in a farmer's home garden to save time 



and confusion in planting and tending the various crops? 



3. What is a convenient size and shape for a farmer's home garden? 



4. How many different plantings are likely to be required in a farmer's 



vegetable garden in order to insure a full assortment and continuous 

 supply of vegetables throughout the season? 



5. Give approximate dates for planting each of the common vegetables in 



central latitudes. 



6. Enumerate the desirable features of the arrangement of vegetables sug- 



gested in the plan of a farmer's vegetable garden on page 266. 



7. WTiat labor-saving methods of soil preparation should be employed in a 



farmer's vegetable garden? 



8. ^Vhat labor-saving methods of cultivating the growing crops should be 



employed in the farmer's garden? 



9. Contrast the \dllage or suburban garden wdth the farmer's garden. 



10. Give the minimum distances for planting each of the common vegetables 



when hand methods of tillage are to be employed. How much more 

 space is required when a horse cultivator is to be used? 



11. How can the soil in a suburban garden best be fitted for planting? 



12. Discuss the efficiency of the rake as a tillage tool. 



13. What are the characteristics of a city back yard garden? 



14. Discuss the arrangement of vegetables under an intensive system of crop- 



ping in a city garden when space is limited. 



15. What should be the predominating characteristic of a variety of vegetables 



selected for the home garden? 



16. Name from one to three high quality varieties of each of the common 



vegetables adapted to the home garden. 



17. VtTiy is it an advantage to have more seed on hand than is actually needed 



for planting the area contemplated? 



18. Should seeds for a farmer's home garden usually be purchased by the 



packet or the ounce? 



