Tested Planting Table for the Vegetable Garden 
S. PRENTISS BALDWIN 
[EDITOR’S NOTE.—This is not a theoretical table, but one that has been evolved from actual experience in running a vegetable 
garden. 
ments and modifications that continual use have shown to be desirable after a total experience of eight consecutive seasons. 
would hardly be possible to present a table that could be more practical. 
The original table was published in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE for April, 1910, and, as now presented, shows the improve- 
It 
The compiler states that quantities are figured on a 
basis of twenty people, and the information is given on the assumption (which in his case is an actual fact) that the man who 
does the work merely follows directions to the letter.] 
HIS chart was devised to bring 
order out of chaos, and to enable 
unskilled labor to actually grow 
a crop of vegetables successfully. 
There is no mystery about it. A busy 
man can hand this schedule to any able- 
bodied man who can read English, and 
then forget all about the thing. If the 
instructions are followed, word for 
word, step by step, there will be a con- 
stant and evenly distributed supply of 
vegetables throughout the season. 
The varieties here named are mostly 
old standard varieties. These are safe 
to use. The quantity to plant is esti- 
mated for twenty persons. You can ad- 
just this to your needs. We require the 
planting done on the dates named un- 
less weather forbids, and in that case it 
is only delayed to the first good day. 
Our soil (in Ohio) is a heavy clay. 
We are compelled, therefore, to make a. 
special soil for the melon tribe. Heavy 
applications of manure are plowed down 
in the fall, and commercial fertilizer is. 
given in the spring. 
The real way to use this schedule is. 
to scratch off the vegetables you do not 
like, and change the PHAOUIS to suit 
your requirements. 
NAME 
Artichoke, 
Jerusalem 
Asparagus 
Bush Lima Beans 
Pole Lima Beans 
VARIETY * 
Palmetto or 
Argenteuil 
Fordhook 
King of Garden 
TIME TO PLANT 
April 1, outside 
TIME TO MATURITY 
Ready in 7 months/100-foot row; 
QUANTITY DIRECTIONS 
2\Hardy Perennial. Plant tubers 6 inches 
quarts tubers to deep. Rows 5 feet apart: 2 feet apart 
100 feet in row. Fine for soup or boiled. 
April, outside 300 plants Hardy. Plant 2-year roots. Rows 2 feet 
apart; 8 inches deep; 1 foot apart in 
row. Rich moist soil, mulch with ma- 
nure, salt well. 
April 1, under glass 30 pots; 150-foot|/Tender. Set out in May. 2 inches deep. 
ay l, outside row; 1 pint seed Rows 2 feet apart. 
May 15, outside . 10 weeks 50 hills; 1 pint/Tender. 2 inches deep. Hills 4 feet apart. 
seed Pinch off at 6 feet high 
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String Beans 
Beets 
Brussels Sprouts 
Cabbage 
Hodson Wax 
Bountiful 
do do 
do do 
Crosby’s Egyptian 
Crimson Globe 
L. I. Half Dwarf 
Copenhagen Market 
Drumhead Savoy 
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Dwarf Erfurt or 
Earliest Snowball 
Chard 
Celery 
Chicory 
Corn 
Cucumber 
Endive 
Lueullus 
Golden Self-blanching 
Giant Pascal 
Witloof 
Golden Bantam 
er 
Country Gentleman 
May 15, outside 
May 15, June 1, 
June 15, July 1 
Cool and Crisp or 
White Spine 
sreen Curled 
May 1, outside 
June 1, outside 
July 1, outside 
July 1 
late, 11 weeks 
5 hills each time;|Tender. 
100 feet; 1 oz. seed Hardy. Rows 2 feet apart; 
; 6 weeks 25 feet each; 1)/Tender. 2 inches deep; 6 inches apart in 
ray Pioutside pint seed to 75-| row; rows 2 feet apart. 
June 1, outside foot row 
July 1, outside 
April 15, outside 9 weeks 75 feet each time;]] inch deep; 6 inches apart in row; rows 
May 15, outside 1 ounce seed to 2 feet apart. Soak seed over night. Win- 
June 15, outside 50 feet ter in sand or pits. 
July 15, outside 
March 15, under glass |20 weeks 100 early % inch deep; 1 foot apart in row; rows 2 
May 15, under glass 100 late feet apart. Hang in cellar for winter. 
(1 packet seed) 
March 15, under glass |18 weeks 150 plants Hardy. 4%%-inch deep; 2 feet apart in row; 
May 15, under glass rows 3 feet apart. Manure well. Win- 
Transplant to garden 300 plants ter upside down in pits. 
(1 packet seed) 
March 15, under glass 200 plants Hardy. % inch deep. 2 feet apart in row. 
May 1, under glass 200 plants Rows 3 feet apart. - Manure well. 
Transplant to garden (1 packet seed) 
April 15, outside 15 weeks 75 feet Hardy. % inch deep; 6 inches apart in 
June 1, outside 75 feet row; rows 2 feet apart. Winter in sand 
(1 packet seed) or pits. 
April 15, outside 8 weeks 30-foot row; 1 oz.)/Hardy. 1 inch deep; 1 foot apart in rows; 
seed rows 2 feet apart. 
March 15, under glass |18 weeks 200 plants Hardy. Set out in May; barely cover. 
May 15, under glass 300 plants Y% foot apart in rows; rows 3 feet apart. 
(1 packet seed) Rich, moist soil. Transplant twice. 
In August bank up to blanch. Winter 
in pits. 
May 1 150 feet; 1 ounce Hardy. % inch oot Rows 2 feet apart. 
seed Tops forced and blanched for salad in 
winter. 
May 1, outside Early, 9 weeks; 125 hills each time/Tender. 2 inches deep; 2 feet apart in 
1 quart to 200 Manure and 
hills 
row; rows 4 feet apart. 
remove suckers. 
1 inch deep; 4 feet apart. 
1 foot apart 
in row. ‘Transplant to dark cellar to 
blanch for winter. 
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Eggplant 
Black Beauty 
9 weeks 
1 oz. seed to 50 
hills 
8 weeks 
March 1, under glass, |15 weeks 50 pots 
Trans 
splant to garden 
wit 
good heat 
88 
Very tender. % inch deep; 2 feet apart in 
row; rows 3 feet apart. Rich and moist. 
(1 packet seed) 
Store dry for late fall use. 
