APPENDIX 65 
The mustard family includes cabbage, cauliflower, collard, 
Brussels sprouts, kale, radish, turnip, and kohlrabi. 
The goose foot family includes beet, Swiss chard, and 
spinach. 
The parsley family includes carrot, celery, parsley, and 
parsnip. 
The nightshade family includes Irish potato, tomato, 
eggplant, and pepper. 
The gourd family includes squash, pumpkin, melon, cu- 
cumber, and watermelon. 
2. Follow the quickly maturing crops of the earliest planting, 
such as garden peas, spinach, lettuce, and mustard, with the 
main crops of the second planting season, such as tomato, okra, 
pepper, and cucumber. 
3. Follow the slowly maturing crops of the earliest planting, 
such as Irish potato and cabbage, with the midsummer planting 
of late corn, late tomato, late Irish potato, cowpeas, carrots, and 
beans. 
4. Follow the crops of the second planting season, for ex- 
ample, early tomato, with the earliest fall planting season of 
endive, lettuce, and beets. 
5. Between the rows of tall growing vegetable plants, for 
example, corn, plant a companion crop of any df the gourd 
family or any low-growing plant, the leaves of which are used 
for food. 
6. Plant slowly maturing tall-growing vegetables between 
rows of quickly maturing, low-growing vegetables, for example, 
tomatoes between rows of carrots. 
7. Choose a succession crop that will require the same amount 
of space as the crop just’ harvested, or plan the garden so that 
one row of Irish potatoes, for example, may follow two rows of 
lettuce. ; ; 
8. The entire vegetable garden should be deeply spaded and 
well fertilized before the plawting of the earliest crops in the 
spring. 
LIST OF HOME GARDENING PUBLICATIONS 
The following publications have been prepared to assist teachers 
who are conducting school-home gardening. They may be obtained 
by applying to the United States Bureau of Education. 
Circulars 
1. Instruction for school supervised home gardens. 
2. A course in vegetable gardening for teachers. 
