i8 Home Vegetable Gardening 



planting plan. Master it and use it, for only so can 

 you make your garden time count for most in pro- 

 ducing results. In the average small garden there 

 is a very large percentage of waste — for two weeks, 

 more string beans than can be eaten or given away; 

 and then, for a month, none at all, for instance. You 

 should determine ahead as nearly as possible how 

 much of each vegetable your table will require and 

 then try to grow enough of each for a continuous 

 supply, and no more. It is just this that the planting 

 plan enables you to do. 



I shall describe, as briefly as possible, forms of 

 the planting plan, planting table, check list and rec- 

 ord, which I have found it convenient to use. 



To make the Planting Plan take a sheet of white 

 paper and a ruler and mark off a space the shape of 

 your garden — which should be rectangular if pos- 

 sible — using a scale of one-quarter or one-eighth 

 inch to the foot. Rows fifty feet long will be found 

 a convenient length for the average home garden. 

 In a garden where many varieties of things are 

 grown it will be best to run the rows the short way 

 of the piece. We will take a fifty-foot row for the 

 purpose of illustration, though of course it can read- 

 ily be changed in proportion where rows of that 

 length can not conveniently be made. In a very 

 small garden it will be better to make the row, say, 

 twenty-five feet long, the aim being always to keep 



