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Plan for quick succession in an average garden 



of vegetables for greens. In every section 

 will be found rows of either Swiss chard, 

 kale, mustard or spinach. Spinach will 

 take care of earliest demands, kale of the 

 latest, since it stands considerable frost. 

 Mustard grows to good size in three weeks 

 from date of planting and, by selecting the 

 new sorts like Elephant Ear or Fordhook 

 Fancy, you really get leaves that quickly fill 

 the pot. Cooked just like spinach, it is 

 delicious and if, by itself, its flavor is too 

 strong, try it mixed with endive. It also 

 makes a fine salad either alone or with other 

 salad plants. 



If the six rows 

 of radishes in 

 section B are 

 planted about 



What the " average " 

 garden should produce 

 on July 4: Beans, car- 

 rots. Swiss chard, let- 

 tuce, cabbage, 

 tomatoes, peas, 

 etc. JS 



April 15th, the ground should 

 be available for corn by Dec- 

 oration Day. If a few rows be- 

 come bare sooner, take a chance 

 and plant Golden Bantam ahead 

 of the other two varieties. Its 

 kernels are of firmer substance and 

 the young plants are really quite 

 hardy, so far as corn goes. Per- 

 sonally, I would plant Golden Ban- 

 tam for a succession in some other 

 rows now planned for something 

 else. It may be planted as late as 

 July 4th in the latitude of Central 

 Ohio, and will produce roasting 

 ears before frost. 



All the varieties of peas sug- 

 gested for section B are dwarf. 

 If your soil is not too rich, none will 

 grow taller than thirty inches. 

 Personally, I prefer to stake even 

 dwarf sorts, for the sake of orderli- 

 ness and to facilitate cultivation. 

 But you need not stake these dwarf 

 peas if you sow the seeds in double 

 rows, placing the drills four inches, 

 apart. The vines of the "twin 

 rows" will then support themselves 

 and keep the pods off the ground. 

 Peppers wind up the list of new 

 or additional vegetables suggested 

 for the average garden. When it 

 comes to peppers, let me help dis- 

 pel a popular fallacy. People will 

 insist on big peppers. They want 

 great, big fruits suitable for stuffing 

 and mangoes. As a matter of 

 fact, the largest pepper we have, 

 Chinese Giant, is not practical for 

 the greater part of the country. 

 Even in Ohio, it matures only one year out 

 of every five. Early sorts of medium size 

 like Sweet Salad, Ruby King or Neapolitan 

 are far more apt to give general satisfac- 

 tion than the monster strains. 



The type of garden planned and explained 

 here is not an experiment. It has been put 

 to work under wide and varied conditions 

 of soil and climate and has made good. On 

 the strength of this, I venture to make cer- 

 tain predictions, that are bound to come 

 true if seed and season act normally. Sup- 



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sowings about April 1 5U1 , and from that 

 date on put in on an average of six hours a 

 week or two hours every other day. By 

 May 30th, your garden will he planted com- 

 pletely, including the tomato plants, al- 

 though you are not through by any means 

 with the successive plantings suggested on 

 the plan. 



Between May 10th and 15th, your garden 

 will bear its first crops in the form of early 

 radishes, lettuce, spinach and green onions. 

 The second plantings of the same vegetables 

 in section B and C will prolong the seasons 

 for these crops up to June 15th. By that 

 time, some of the earliest beets will have 

 reached the desired two inch size, and Pedi- 

 gree Extra Early will furnish the first taste 

 of the fresh peas. Mustard will be avail- 

 able in connection with spinach or with beet 

 tops or alone, for greens. If you succeed in 

 securing plants of Jersey Wakefield or Co- 

 penhagen Market Cabbage, the third week 

 in June will see your garden providing cab- 

 bages. Bountiful beans, planted April 25th 

 will mature June 25th, and Chalk's Jewel 

 will bear tomatoes by June 10th. Through- 

 out July, August and September, the garden 

 will produce enough of all sorts of vegetables 

 to provide a family of six. 



One final thought: If you tackle the 

 job alone and mean business, depend on a 

 wheel hoe instead of a hose to make the gar- 

 den successful. All the vegetables men- 

 tioned stand a remarkable amount of dry 

 weather, so long as the surface of the ground 

 is kept in fine, pulverized condition. Re- 

 fraining from an over-free use of the hose 

 will be instrumental in keeping down the 

 surface weeds in the garden. Another 

 thing: If so far, you have not got started 

 by all means go 

 ahead. The only 

 difference be- 

 tween a 

 started the first 

 week in May and 

 one started the 

 middle of April 

 will be that re- 

 sults will be from 

 ten days to two 

 weeks later. 



