FEBRUARY: FIRST WEEK 33 



one end of the garden is rather light put the beans there; if 

 the soil aijthe other end is lower and heavier put the celery 

 there. If part of the garden is to be newly broken use that 

 for corn or potatoes, and keep such things as onions and 

 carrots, which require a particularly fine seed bed, on the old 

 ground. 



When your plan of first plantings is completed, take the 

 late and succession crops and arrange them in the same way. 

 Careful attention must be paid to the time when the first 

 crops will be removed. The usual time required for crops to 

 mature is shown in the accompanying table. There is, of 

 course, considerable difference in the lengths of time taken 

 by early and by late varieties of the same vegetable, and in 

 addition weather and other growing conditions have some 

 influence. An extremely dry season may make it impossible 

 for you to follow your planting plan exactly, as first crops 

 will be late in maturing and second crops will be late in 

 starting. Incidentally this is one of the things that makes 

 an irrigation system of supreme advantage. With it there 

 are no long-delayed crops, poor in both quantity and 

 quality when they finally get rain enough to mature. 



Having gone so far as to map out your work in the garden 

 it wiU be interesting to see how accurately you can follow 

 the plan and how nearly you can make your actual garden 

 come up to the ideal one you have put down on paper. 

 You will have to get all the plantings made at the proper 

 time. So you should make a check list showing the kinds 

 and the amounts of the various things to be planted and the 

 dates on which they should be put in. Another thing you 

 might put down on your check Hst is the treatment of the 

 various insect pests and diseases that are likely to attack 

 your crops. 



Keep a Garden Diary 



In making out your garden plan this year you will prob- 

 ably find yourself handicapped by the lack of accurate 

 knowledge about your plantings of last year — how much of 



