6 GARDEN FARMING 



which will produce a paying crop the succeeding year. By this prac 

 tice the potatoes, beans, or whatever is grown between the straw 

 berries, not only pays for the cultivation of the strawberries bu 

 returns a remunerative crop while the strawberry plants are becom 

 ing established and are making preparations for the next season' 

 returns. For crops which require a long period to come to maturity i 

 is a common practice to plant between them some short-season crop 

 such, for instance, as string beans between cucumbers. The bean 

 can be planted somewhat earlier and thus have a start of the cu 

 cumbers and, in regions with high winds, act as a protection t 

 them ; by the time the cucumbers demand the whole area th 

 beans will have been removed. Where land is very expensive thi 



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FIG. i. Double cropping 

 i, i, radish; 2, lettuce; 3, 3, cabbage 



system of double cropping, or catch cropping, is common. Quick 

 growing crops, such as radishes and lettuce, are frequently pro 

 duced between wide-planted rows of cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes 

 potatoes, and the like, as suggested in figure i. This enables on< 

 to harvest a series of crops from the same land throughout th< 

 whole season. Then, too, because of the short season which man 1 

 of these crops require it is sometimes possible in regions where th< 

 growing period is long to produce as many as four crops upon th< 

 same land during a single year. In many of the Southern truck 

 growing regions this is possible. One instance which has com< 

 to the writer's attention is that of a truck grower who produce: 

 upon his land in the fall a crop of lettuce which is harvested ii 

 December. Upon the same land he produces another crop o: 

 lettuce which is harvested late in March or the first of April, anc 

 before this crop is harvested beans are planted, so that by the las 



