THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



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In storing vegetables, a few things need an exceptionally dry and 

 warm place, such as a corner of the attic near the chimney. The stor- 

 age room must be perfectly clean. Get it ready early. Some folks like 

 to provide containers to hold the different fruits or vegetables and so 

 make them easy to handle. Some vegetables demand a free circulation 

 of air about them, while others must be kept barely moist by some 

 packing material. Ordinary cracker boxes and slatted vegetable or 

 "Onion" crates, each of which holds about a bushel, level full, are cheap, 

 clean and convenient, and can be obtained at any grocery store. The 

 boxes are also excellent for keeping Apples and other fruit, and for 

 packing root crops such as Parsnips, Salsify, Turnips, Beets, Carrots 

 and Whiter Radishes in sand or sphagnum moss, and also for packing 

 Celery for Winter. Slatted crates are good for Onions, Squash, Cab- 

 bage, and for handling Tomatoes, Melons, Egg-plant and so forth, 

 which can be kept for some weeks in a cool place. Directions for storing 

 and harvesting the individual crops are given in paragraphs that 

 follow, but the fuller general information is given in this paragraph 

 on storage. 



SOWING AND PLANTING TABLE 



No. of 

 Days to 

 Mature 



45-75 



55-80 



60-90 



65-100 



70-90 



40-60 



75-90 



100-140 

 70-100 



120-180 

 60-80 

 60-90 

 50-80 



100-140 



125-150 

 60-80 

 80-100 

 60-75 

 40-60 

 75-100 

 60-100 



120-150 

 90-120 



100-125 



120-175 

 90-110 



