CHAPTER X 
THE GROWING OF THE VEGETABLE PLANTS 
A VEGETABLE garden is admittedly a part of any home place 
that has a good rear area. A purchased vegetable is never the 
same as one taken from a man’s own soil and representing his 
own effort and solicitude. 
It is essential to any satisfaction in vegetable-growing that the 
soil be rich and thoroughly subdued and fined. The plantation 
should also be so arranged that the tilling can be done with 
291. Cultivating the backache. 
wheel tools, and, where the space will allow it, with horse tools. 
The old-time garden bed (Fig. 291) consumes time and labor, 
wastes moisture, andis more trouble and expense than it is worth. 
The rows of vegetables should be as long and continuous as 
possible, to allow of tillage with wheel tools. If it is not desired 
to grow a full row of any one vegetable, the line may be made up 
of several species, one following the other, care being taken to 
place together such kinds as have similar requirements; one 
long row, for example, might contain all the parsnips, carrots, 
and salsify. One or two long rows containing a dozen kinds of 
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