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Lettuce may thus be 

 grown with tomato 

 plants, as shown in Fig- 

 ures 54 and 55. Both 

 the lettuce and tomato 

 plants may be trans- 

 planted to the garden 

 at about the same time, 

 or the lettuce may be 

 planted earlier. The 

 heads of lettuce are 

 gathered about the time 

 that the tomato plants 

 are overshadowing them. 

 Lettuce may thus be 

 grown with peppers and 

 eggplants. Lettuce ma- 

 turing in 5 weeks may 

 be grown with cabbage 

 that matures in 10 weeks. 

 (See Figure 58.) Rad- 

 ishes and carrots may be ex Pf nse than , if the 



each separately. 



sown in alternate rows 



6 inches apart; then when the radishes are removed 



the rows of carrots are left 12 inches apart. 



Many of the short-period vegetables, and especially 

 the early cool-season crops, mature and are removed 

 from the garden in time to grow another crop. This 

 second crop is called a succession or follow crop. Some 

 of the short-period crops are : radishes, lettuce, peas, 

 early cabbages, spinach, turnips, beets, early carrots, 



FIG. 57. A follow crop (carrots) planted 

 after lettuce has been removed. Two crops 

 are obtained from the same garden space 

 and they are secured with less labor and 

 were prepared for 



