70 GARDEN PROFITS 



"Our first thought was to plant the rows north 

 and south in order to get the full benefit of the 

 sunshine. Next we arranged rows of three different 

 lengths — thirty feet for those vegetables of which 

 we wanted the largest possible quantity, twenty 

 feet for others and ten feet for the sorts that would 

 yield a sufficient amount from a small space. In 

 every case where it was possible, a succession or 

 doubling-up was done. Sometimes two or even 

 three crops grew on the same line. In the case of 

 the potatoes and corn, alternate hills of the former 

 were promptly dug and the space replanted with a 

 July sowing of corn. 



"The 30-foot row of early peas was followed by 

 three crops that made use of the same trellis, each 

 occupying one-third of the row. 



"As both onions and parsley are the better for 

 transplanting, the young plants of each simply 

 exchanged locations ; the parsley went into the place 

 vacated by the onions and seed of the later crop of 

 onions was sown in the parsley row. In instances 

 where the ground was not to be vacated early enough 

 for the later planting, the sowings of the successive 

 crops were made in odd corners or in flower pots, 

 and the plantlets transplanted as soon as there 

 was a vacancy; tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, bush 

 Limas, kohlrabi and lettuce were treated in this 

 way. 



FIVE CROPS ON ONE FOOT OF GROUND 



"The trellises and adjacent ground were used for 

 two, three, four or even five crops. One foot from 



