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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



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Littlest 



GENERAL kitchen gardening is not the only 

 way in which a few hundred square feet of 

 space can be made profitable. There are a number 

 of combinations of crops, whereby the ground can 

 be occupied throughout the season, economically, 

 by vegetables for which there is practically a con- 

 tinual demand. In fact, the result is a miniature 

 truck garden business, emphasizing and specializing 

 in certain crops; very miniature indeed, perhaps, 

 but if the expenses diminish proportionately, so 

 that there is a profit, and if what was a barren yard 

 space is made to blossom and bring forth market- 

 able products, wherefore is such a scheme anything 

 but advantageous? 



The following treatment of chard or kale and 

 radishes is simple and profitable, with the added 

 convenience that none of these crops is ordinarily 

 troubled by disease or insects. Plant the radishes 

 in rows nine inches apart, as soon as the cold weather 

 is over. This will be from March 15th to the 

 middle of April. In a week or two, also depending 

 on the weather, sow the chard or kale between 

 every two rows of radish, later thinning the plants 

 to twelve inches apart. This spacing will bring 

 the rows of chard eighteen inches apart, the radishes 

 maturing and being harvested in time to give the 

 larger plants plenty of room. Later, if desired, 

 a third row of radishes can be sown midway be- 

 tween the chards or kales (this being, therefore, 

 between the two earlier rows of radish) for a quick 

 summer or fall crop. Chards and kale can be cut 

 from time to time throughout the season. 



PICKLES AND SALAD 



If by chance you are not educated up to chard 

 or kale, you can grow the ever popular lettuce 

 and pickling cucumbers. This combination, too, 

 leaves little vacant space; indeed, its growing 

 surface covers an even greater area. 



To specify: Cucumbers grow excellently on 

 trellises, in fact this means of saving space is all 

 too often disregarded. Lettuce can stand a moder- 

 ate amount of shade. On these foundations we 

 can develop our method. Make enough rough A- 

 shaped trellises four feet high to cover your ground, 

 allowing four feet between the bases of each trellis 

 and one foot between every two rows of supports. 

 Let these run north and south, just as would the 

 rows in an ordinary garden. Plant the cucumbers 

 every three feet, in the one-foot space between the 

 trellises, the vines trained over one trellis alternat- 

 ing with those on the other. The one foot alleys 

 can easily be kept cultivated, and at the same 

 time furnish a passageway if watering or fertilizing 

 becomes necessary. 



In the four foot space under each trellis lay out 

 two rows of lettuce, a foot apart and eighteen inches 

 from either side. This brings all the ground to be 

 cultivated under the highest part of the trellis; 

 yet this cultivation need not be much, for all that 

 should be required is the occasional use of a scuffle 

 hoe. 



The most convenient trellis is made as follows: 

 Build oblong hurdles or fence sections of two 

 5-foot 2x2 or 2 x 3 in. posts, joined by 3 x | in. 

 furring; one strip six inches from the upper ends, 

 the second twelve or fourteen inches from the lower 

 ends of the posts. These connecting planks may 

 be of any length, preferably a convenient unit of 

 the length of the garden. At intervals of four feet, 



