Planning the Garden IOI 
where space is limited, many schemes of companion and 
follow cropping can be worked out which will greatly in- 
crease the total production. 
A little study of the best ways of grouping vegetables 
for companion and succession crops, as suggested in the 
paragraphs above, will help the gardener so to plan that 
overplanting will be avoided. He will then have a 
pleasing variety of foods, and the soil will be kept busy 
through the whole growing season. Notes regarding 
these points and suggestions for improving the garden 
should be recorded as they come to mind during the 
growing of crops. Perhaps the notes may be kept on 
the back of the cardboard on which the plan was drawn. 
These will aid greatly in making plans for following 
seasons. 
Planning school gardens. What has been said con- 
cerning the planning of home gardens and school directed 
home gardens applies equally to school gardens, especially 
to demonstration gardens (page 10) and community or 
grade gardens (page 6). In most school gardens fewer 
vegetables aré grown than in a home garden, and the 
planning is therefore somewhat simpler. 
When the individual plot system with paths between 
the plots is used, the whole area is laid out like a checker- 
board into plots of uniform size with straight paths run- 
ning entirely across the area (Figs. 2 and 3). Stakes 
are placed at the corners of the plots and the paths and 
plots are kept in line throughout the season. The plots 
are as a rule all planted alike with the rows running the 
same way and with the different kinds of vegetables in 
the same relative positions. All this gives uniformity of 
