CHAPTER VI 



VEGETABLE GARDENS 



41. The Home Garden. The home vegetable garden 

 should be given far greater care and consideration than is 

 generally accorded it. As a factor tending to lower the 

 increasing cost of living, the home garden can be of use 

 practically the year round. No area on the farm is as profit- 

 able as the home garden. Not only will it furnish vegetables 

 for the home table but it often will furnish a sufficient supply 

 for sale to the local market or to the neighbors. 



The work done in the home vegetable garden is usually 

 done at odd times and for this rea.son the garden should 

 be located as close to the house as the conditions may permit. 

 It should also be near the house so that the supply of fresh 

 vegetables may easily be had at short notice. The garden 

 should lie carefully jilanned that the area planted may give 

 tlie greatest returns for the money expended and the work 

 done. The perennials such as rhubarb, asparagus, horse 

 radish, strawlx'rries and such bush fruits as blackberries 

 and raspberries should be planted at one end of the garden 

 in order that they may not interfere with the cultivation 

 and harvesting of the general garden crops. Fig. 14 shows 

 a good arrangement. 



The home vegetable garden is not complete without a 

 small hot bed in which to grow such crops as radishes and 

 lettuce, out of season, and for starting such plants as lettuce, 

 cabbage and tomato plants for transplanting. 



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