Chapter XIX 



A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS 



ONE of the greatest difficulties in gardening 

 is to get things started ahead at the proper 

 time, and yet upon the thoroughness with 

 which this is done the success of the garden must 

 depend, in large measure. 



The reader may remember that in a previous 

 chapter (Chapter IV) the importance of accurately 

 planning the work ahead was emphasized. I men- 

 tioned there the check list used to make sure that 

 everything would be carried out, or started ahead 

 at the proper time — as with the sowing of seeds. 

 The following garden operations, given month by 

 month, will serve not only as a timely reminder of 

 things to be done, but as the basis for such a check 

 list. The importance of the preparations in all 

 matters of gardening, is of course obvious. 



JANUARY 



Probably one of the good resolutions made with 

 the New Year was a better garden for the coming 



(249) 



