2 VEGETABLE GARDENING 



3. Trucking or farm gardening. — There is no sharp 

 line of demarcation between market gardening and truck- 

 ing or farm gardening. According to common usage 

 trucking means the growing of vegetables on an exten- 

 sive field scale. The operations may be near enough to 

 market to transport the products by wagon, or removed 

 hundreds of miles, in which case trains or boats are used 

 in transportation. The land is seldom worth more than 

 $300 an acre and usually much less. Such crops as cab- 

 bage, tomato, celery, sweet potato, sweet corn and othe? 

 vegetables are grown and cultivated with horse imple- 

 ments. In some important trucking regions, as at Nor- 

 folk, Va., wheel hoe crops, including spinach and kale, 

 are largely grown and shipped to market. Both market 

 j>'ardening and truck farming are often seen on the same 

 I arm. In some regions the farm gardening or trucking 

 t )perations are restricted mainly to one or two crops ; for 

 iixample, the growing of late cabbage in western New 

 York; tomatoes in Caroline county, Md. ; celery and let- 

 tuce in Tioga county. Pa.; muskmelons at Rockyford, 

 • 'ol. ; and sweet potatoes in certain sections of New Jersey. 



4. Vegetable forcing is a very important branch of 

 vegetable gardening. Hundreds of acres under glass in 

 the United States are devoted to the growing of lettuce, 

 tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes and other vegetables. 

 This is the most intensive type of vegetable gar- 

 dening. It is often combined with market gardening, the 

 glass being a great advantage in starting many early 

 crops. Greenhouses, hotbeds and cold frames p'"- 

 ployed for forcing purposes. 



5. Home vegetable gardening. — The production of 

 vegetables in the home garden for the home table is oiten 

 called kitchen gardening. On most farms the area de- 

 voted to this purpose is known as "the garden." Otherf 

 parts of the premises may be manured sparingly or not 

 at all, while this small area receives heavy annual appli- 



