SUCCESSFUL GARDENS 95 



yield from a small garden may still be large by 

 careful planning, planting another crop as soon 

 as one is cleared away. In other words, do not let 

 the ground remain idle. By this means, too, the 

 garden is always presentably neat and in order, 

 never an eyesore with old plants, vines, etc., dis- 

 figuring it. 



"An almost perfect succession is the total result 

 of my three years' records. The plan on page 

 97 shows that the larger part of the garden yielded 

 two crops. A 4-foot space along each fence line 

 contains a row of berry bushes planted last year 

 and set eighteen inches from the fence; also a shallow 

 gutter fifteen inches wide used as a path, which 

 also gives room in which to turn, but may be short- 

 ened if necessary, 



"At the rear there is a row of rhubarb plants set 

 eighteen inches from the fence. Two and a half 

 feet in front of this is a row of asparagus, the roots 

 set eighteen inches apart; another row of asparagus 

 is to be planted two and a half feet from the present 

 one. The remaining sixty-two feet is divided into 

 two unequal portions. All vegetables of the same 

 family are grown in the same portion, the position 

 of these portions being changed each year, so as 

 to get a rotation. 



"In deciding on the distance between both rows 

 and plants the effort has been to give the plants 

 room properly to develop, yet to have them so 

 that when grown the foliage will completely shade 

 the ground, and thus lesson the labor necessary 

 for their care. Paths one foot wide are left between 



