392 GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS 



termed " catch crops," which being interpreted means, that 

 instead of the ground being allowed to remain idle during 

 the interval that may elapse between the gathering of one 

 crop and the sowing or planting of another, it is made use of 

 for the purpose of raising some such quick-growing vegetables 

 as Spinach, Lettuce, Dwarf Beans, Turnips, &c. All these 

 must be interleaved, as it were, between the standard products 

 of the kitchen garden ; they cannot be included in the regular 

 rotation of crops. And it will not be found at all difficult to 

 introduce them. 



Do not permit weeds in the kitchen garden. Not only 

 do they rob the rightful dwellers in the soil of much food, 

 but they are altogether an eyesore, and a painful indication 

 of neglect. Always sow and plant systematically in drills, so 

 that the hoe may be easily worked between the plants. He 

 who sows broadcast will also reap weeds broadcast, for it is 

 then impossible to keep them down, and for the simple reason 

 that one is not able to reach them without damaging the 

 cultivated plants in so doing. 



