July, 1906 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



333 



They are at least good for the ground. 

 About August i st more corn will have 

 passed its usefulness, and the ground may 

 as well be used for this crop. Sow some of 

 the early dwarf varieties, such as Nott's 

 Excelsior, or American Wonder. 



A SURE CROP — BEANS 



Three more sowings can yet be made of 

 string beans, from July ist to August ist. 

 It may not be possible to get them all into 

 one plot, but wherever an empty space is 

 found, fill it up. By August ist you will 

 find lots of room. 



By August 20th the onions will have to be 

 harvested, else they will start into growth 

 again, which will spoil their keeping qualities. 

 This ground can be used for Yellow Stone 

 turnips, or for winter beets. Eclipse is a 

 good keeping variety. 



BEETS AND TURNIPS 



The early muskmelons will also be past, 

 and part of the ground on which they grew 

 can be used for beets and turnips. One 

 hundred running feet of turnips and two 

 hundred of beets would be about the mini- 

 mum quantity. 



The rest of the ground on which the musk- 

 melons grew can be used for winter spinach. 



Make successive sowings of lettuce and 



radishes throughout August, and lettuce 

 even later, for transplanting to hotbeds. 



Make also another sowing of endive about 

 July ist. Fifty feet of row will be sufficient. 



SUCCESSION OF SPINACH 



Successive sowings of spinach should be 

 made every two weeks up to the end of 

 August. This is one of the healthiest of all 

 vegetables, and a garden should never be 

 without it, Small sowings, twenty-five to 

 fifty feet at a time will do. You can always 

 find this much space by watching carefully 

 and a second crop of this can follow on the 

 ground where one has just been cleared, and 

 each will do well. 



CROPPING AIDS FERTILITY 



Your chief aim should be to keep your 

 garden busy the whole year. You will 

 always find in these planting tables some 

 useful crop that will fill in where one has 

 been harvested. If toward the end of the 

 season — say the middle of August — you have 

 more empty space than you need for suc- 

 cessional sowing, it will pay to fork over the 

 ground, and sow white mustard, or any green 

 crop that grows quickly, to be turned under 

 for manure. Remember this: An empty 

 garden is always a weedy one. It is less 

 trouble to sow such a crop than it is to hoe 



the weeds, and there are no bad after effects. 

 Aim to plant in each plot as nearly as possible 

 such things as can be harvested about the 

 same time. It facilitates the work greatly, 

 and looks better. Imagine manuring and 

 forking over three feet, then skipping ten or 

 fifteen feet, and forking three feet more. 

 More time is wasted than would be neces- 

 sary to cultivate a whole plot. 



WORK ON A SYSTEM 



These small things are often overlooked, 

 when greater things demand attention. It 

 is well therefore to be methodical regarding 

 them. Assign the job, to yourself or some- 

 one else, to be done the last thing Saturday 

 night, or first thing Monday morning. Make 

 it a point to sow a few seeds once a week, and 

 you will always have plants of suitable size 

 to transplant. Very small sowings of the 

 seed should be made, and transplant about 

 two dozen plants at a time. This is better 

 than planting a lot at one time and allowing 

 them to go to waste. 



Carefully watch the successions, and as far 

 as possible avoid having any kind succeed 

 itself, or even an allied species (except in the 

 case of spinach). They not only require the 

 same soil ingredients, but they are subject 

 to the same diseases, and by planting one 

 after the other, you are borrowing trouble 



Time of Planting and Sowing for Winter Crops 



KIND 



DATE TO SOW 

 VARIETY TQ SET 0UT 



PLANTS 



DATE TO SOW 



FOR 



SUCCESSION 



DISTANCE 



BETWEEN 



ROWS 



(inches) 



DISTANCE 

 BETWEEN 



PLANTS 



when thinned 



(inches) 



MINIMUM 



QUANTITY 



Running Feet 



ok 

 No. of Plants 



TO SUCCEED 



Celery 



White Plume, 

 Golden Dwarf 



July 15 



(from May 1 

 sowing) 





36 



12 



400 pits. 



Early peas, beets, beans, 

 carrots 



Carrots 



Long Orange Improved, 

 Danvers Half Long 



July 1 



. July 10-25 

 Aug. 15 



12 to l8 



2 to 3 



250 ft. 



Strawberries 

 Give no manure 



Turnips 



Purple top , . 

 Rutabaga J y 5 





24 



9 



100 ft. 



Early peas, early corn 



Cabbage 



Flat Dutch, 

 Savoy 



July 1 



(from May 10 

 sowing) 





30 



18 



100 pits. 



Beans, lettuce, spinach, 

 radishes 



Cauliflower 



Snowball, 

 Autumn Giant 



July 1 



(from May 10 

 sowing) 





3° 



15 to 18 



100 pits. 



Beans, lettuce, spinach, 

 radishes 



Corn 



Country Gentleman, 

 Minnesota 





July 1, 8, 16 



48 



24 



100 ft. 



Early cabbage, turnips, 

 cauliflower, peas 



Peas 



Nott's Excelsior, 

 American Wonder 





August 1 



48 



3 



50 ft. 



Early corn 



Beans 



Golden Wax, 

 Mohawk Bush 





July 1, 10, 25 



36 



3 



25 ft. 



Onions, melons, corn 



Turnips 



Yellow Stone 



Aug. 20 





30 



8 



100 ft. 



Onions, melons, corn 



Beets 



Eclipse 



Aug. 20 



Sept. 1-15 



24 



2 to 3 



200 ft. 



Onions, melons, corn 



Endive 



Green Curled, 

 Batavian 





July 1 



18 



9 



50 ft. 



Anything 



Lettuce 



Boston Market, 

 Deacon 





Once a week 



15 



9 



20 ft. 



Between lines of celery 



Radishes 



French Breakfast, 

 White-tipped Scarlet 



Once a week 



12 



2 



10 ft. 



Between lines of celery 



Spinach 



Long Standing, 

 New Zealand 



Aug. 20 (New Zealand); other 

 kinds: July 1, 10,25, Aug. 5, 15,25 



18 



6 



25 ft. 



Anything 



