MONEY IN THE BACKYARD 37 



"Sow radish seeds in cucumber and squash beds, 

 and you will not be troubled with the vines being 

 eaten by the striped bugs. As the radishes grow, 

 they may be pulled for the table, for by that time 



Plant radishes around melon, cucumber 

 and sauash hills. Cutworms will attack 

 them rather than the more valuable mel- 

 ons and if there are no striped beetles 

 about, you will be the gainer by that 

 many radishes 



the danger to the cucumbers and squashes from the 

 bugs will be past. The radish seems to possess a 

 pungency which is effectual in driving away the 

 bugs." 



COMMERCIAL METHODS WORTH COPYING 



Many commercial market gardeners have reduced 

 this combination planting to a science. In raising 

 early cabbage a common scheme is to set the plants 

 every 15 inches, in rows 30 inches apart. Between 

 each cabbage in every row is set a lettuce plant, 

 and a continuous row of lettuce is sown midway 

 between the cabbage rows. Then in the centre of 

 the 15-inch spaces thus made and between every 

 cabbage and lettuce plant, radishes are grown. 



