Planning the Garden , IQI 



where space is limited, many schemes of companion and 

 follow cropping can be worked out which will greatly in- 

 crease the total production. 



A little study of the best ways of grouping vegetables 

 for companion and succession crops, as suggested in the 

 paragraphs above, will help the gardener so to plan that 

 overplanting will be avoided. He will then have a 

 pleasing variety of foods, and the soil will be kept busy 

 through the whole growing season. Notes regarding 

 these points and suggestions for improving the garden 

 should be recorded as they come to mind during the 

 growing of crops. Perhaps the notes may be kept on 

 the back of the cardboard on which the plan was drawn. 

 These will aid greatly in making plans for following 

 seasons. 



Planning school gardens. What has been said con- 

 cerning the planning of home gardens and school directed 

 home gardens applies equally to school gardens, especially 

 to demonstration gardens (page 10) and community or 

 grade gardens (page 6). In most school gardens fewer 

 vegetables are grown than in a home garden, and the 

 planning is therefore somewhat simpler. 



When the individual plot system with paths between 

 the plots is used, the whole area is laid out like a checker- 

 board into plots of uniform size with straight paths run- 

 ning entirely across the area (Figs. 2 and 3). Stakes 

 are placed at the corners of the plots and the paths and 

 plots are kept in line throughout the season. The plots 

 are as a rule all planted alike with the rows running the 

 same way and with the different kinds of vegetables in 

 the same relative positions. All this gives uniformity of 



