VEGETABLE GROWING 

 PROJECTS 



CHAPTER ONE 



VEGETABLE GROWING PROJECT CALENDAR 

 OR SEASONAL PROGRAM 



1. — Get Preliminary Experience 

 Work at every kind of vegetable growing operations that you 

 find going on in your vicinity before classroom studying begins ; 

 and keep on working at such operations after school opens. Work 

 for pay, if you can get it ; or work for the chance it will give you 

 to watch and learn, and take your pay in the greater skill and 

 knowledge thus gained. Your own project should be built on 

 sound experience. 



2. — Adjust the Calendar to Your Project 



The suggestions printed in the following calendar are based 

 on the region around State College, Pennsylvania. In normal 

 seasons they may be followed without change of months in local- 

 ities where the first killing frost in the fall occurs about October 

 first, and the latest killing frost in the spring about May tenth. 

 Consult Weather Bureau Reports, seek local information, and 

 adjust the calendar to your project by entering dates in the left- 

 hand columns. Also, from time to time, insert in the open spaces 

 provided for this purpose all other items needed to fit your pro- 

 gram exactly to your peculiar conditions. Include, as they arise, 

 the unexpected demands of your project, and the unanticipated 

 opportunities for work and study. Keep your eye on it, perfect 

 it, and in carrying it out be on time. 



