A Beginner's Vegetable Planting Table for Measured Results 



THE vegetable garden is a real suc- 

 cess only when it is an economy. 

 The beginner is usually "all at sea" 

 in deciding how much space he 

 ought to give any crop — an effort is made 

 to help him. At the same time this table 

 like all others of like nature will be most 

 useful as a framework, the details being 

 varied to suit local conditions and personal 

 preferences. The following explanation of 

 the table seems necessary. 



Management — The letters used in this 

 column have the following significance: 



P — Perennial — remaining from one 

 season to the next for three or more years. 



A — All season — occupying the ground 

 so long as to prevent the raising of a pre- 

 ceding or succession crop. 



S — Succession — sowings should be 

 made every ten to fifteen days. 



T — Transplant — these must be moved 

 at least once. 



I — Indoors — these may be started in 

 a greenhouse or hotbed to save time. 



H — Heat — these must be started under 

 glass in order to mature in season. 



Distance Between Plants — This re- 

 fers to the space required by the mature 

 plants — the distances resulting after 



thinning. In the case of tomatoes, cabbage, 

 peppers, etc., the extra seedlings may be 

 transplanted to other rows. A three foot 

 row of tomato seedlings will supply abun- 

 dant strong plants for a very large family. 



Depth to Plant — Use common sense. 

 When the soil is very light, the supply of 

 moisture limited, or the season unusually 

 severe, plant a little deeper than the 

 average. Also when planting outdoors 

 cover the seed a little deeper than when it is 

 under glass. Small seeds of lettuce, celery, 

 etc., sown in pots or fiats should be barely 

 covered with fine sand or pulverized 

 muck. 



What and How Much to Plant — 

 Plants of those vegetables that must be 

 started in March or earlier may be bought 

 in May and June ready to set out, but this 

 is the most expensive way to get them. 

 A ten cent packet of tomato or eggplant 

 seed started in a flat in a sunny window, 

 will give you five or six dozen plants that 

 later would cost between three and four 

 dollars. In general be more lavish with 

 seeds for outdoor planting, especially of 

 vegetables that are not to be transplanted. 



Growing Seasons — These vary with 

 weather and soil conditions, the date of 



planting, the variety and many other 

 factors. Learn from the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau at Washington or your State Ex- 

 periment Station the average period be- 

 tween killing frosts in your locality. Then 

 compare this with the figures in the table 

 to ascertain which sorts may be planted to 

 succeed one another on the same space. 



The Yielding Season — The length of 

 the harvest season of a row of beets depends 

 entirely upon the size of the consuming 

 family and its partiality for that vegetable; 

 a row of peas may yield two or even three 

 pickings; while lima and bush bean vines 

 will continue to bear for several weeks 

 providing the pods are picked as soon as 

 edible. This column in the table indicates 

 the period in which the different vegetables 

 may be obtained, irrespective of whether it 

 is produced by one row or several succes- 

 sion plantings. Kale and parsley, for 

 example may be harvested from under the 

 snow, long after active growth has ceased. 



Maximum and Minimum Plantings — A 

 man once decided to have a garden, and, 

 knowing nothing about it, planted fifty 

 rows of all the seeds he could think of ! The 

 result — more than he could use. The last 

 columns of the table ought to prevent this. 



Name of vegetable 



Asparagus . . 

 Beans, Bush . 

 Beans, Lima (Pole) . 

 Beans, Lima (Bush) 



Beet 



Brussels Sprouts 



Cabbage . . . . 



Carrot . 



Celery . . . . 



Chard 



Chicory . 



Corn (Sweet) 



Cucumber 



Egg Plant . . . 

 Endive . . . . 

 Kale (Borecole) . 

 Kohlrabi . . . . 



Leek 



Lettuce . . . . 

 Muskmelon . 



Okra 



Onion (Seed)'. 

 Onion (Sets) . 

 Parsley . 



Peas 



Pepper . 

 Potato (Irish) 



Pumpkin . . . . 

 Radish . . . . 



Rhubarb 



Salsify . . . . 

 Spinach . . . . 



N. Z. Spinach 

 Squash (Bush) . 

 Squash (Winter) 

 Tomato . . . . 

 Turnips . . . . 

 Veg. Marrow 



Manage- 

 ment 

 (see text) 



PA 



S 



A 



S 



S 

 TAH 

 TAI 



A 

 TH 



A 

 PA 

 SI 



SI 



TAH 



SI 



A 



S 

 TA 



S 

 AI 



A 

 AI 



S 

 AI 



S 

 TAH 



S 



AI 

 SI 

 PA 



A 



S 



A 

 AI 



A 

 AH 



A 

 AI 



Between 

 plants in 



row 

 (Inches) 



30 



4 



36 



6 



2 



24 

 24 



2 



6 



6 



6 

 20 hills 

 12 drills 

 60 

 24 

 10 

 20 



3 

 6 



9 

 60 

 24 



3 

 2 



4 

 2 

 3 



IS 

 18 



128 



1 



36 



4 



4 



IS 

 40 

 96 

 36 

 3 

 48 



Depth to 



plant 

 (Inches) 



Seeds (S) 



Plants (P) 



or Tubers (T) 



per 100 it. row 



40 P. 



1 pt. S. 

 \ pt. S. 



1 pt. s. 



2 oz. S. 



1 oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 



1 oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 



2 OZ. S. 



j oz. S. 



1 pt. s. 



\ oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 



1 oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 



2 OZ. S. 



\ oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 



2 OZ. S. 



1 oz. S. 



1 qt. S. 

 I oz. S. 



2 pt. S. 



\ oz. S. 



22 T 



(cut in 3) 



\ oz. S. 



1 oz. S. 



33 P- 



1 oz. S. 

 1 oz. S. 



1 oz. S. 

 5 oz. S. 

 5 oz. S. 

 i oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 

 \ oz. S. 



Approximate yield 

 per 100 ft. row 



30 qts. 



10 qts. 

 10 qts. (shelled) 

 1000 



50 hds. 



375 



170 hds. 

 8J pks. 



10-15 doz. 



600 



250 



400 

 250 

 125 

 80 

 500 



375 

 500 



f-2 bu. 

 45° 

 175 bu. 



30 

 1 100 

 100 bunches 

 35 bunches 

 i bu. 



275 

 40 



150 lbs. 

 400 

 200 



Growing season 

 (Days) 



2 yrs. 

 40- 65 

 S°- 80 

 50- 60 

 60- 80 

 90-1 20 

 90-130 

 75-no 



120-150 

 60- 75 



150-180 

 60-100 



60- 80 



100-140 

 90-180 

 90-120 

 60- 80 



120-180 

 60- 90 



120-150 

 90-140 



130-iSO 

 90-120 

 90-120 

 40- 80 



100-140 

 80-140 



100-140 

 20- 40 

 2 yrs. 



120-180 

 30- 60 



60-100 



60- 80 



120-160 



100-140 



60- 80 



1 10-140 



Yielding period 



May i-June 15 

 June 20-Frost 

 Aug. 15-Frost 

 July 15-Frost 

 June 30-Winter 

 Oct. -Winter 

 July i-Frost 

 July 30-Winter 

 Nov. -Spring 

 July 30-Frost 

 Aug. 15-Winter 

 July 15-Frost 



July 30-Frost 

 Aug. 10-Frost 

 Sept. i-Winter 

 Aug. -Winter 

 June -Frost 

 July 20-Frost 

 May 30-Winter 

 Aug. 25-Frost 

 Aug. 10-Frost 

 Aug. i-Frost 

 -Frost 

 -Winter 

 4-Frost 

 i-Frost 



July 

 July 



July 

 Aug. 



i\ug. 1— riusi. 



July 10-Frost 



Oct. i-Frost 



May 20-Winter 



May 

 Nov. 

 Apr. 

 Oct. 

 July 



Frost 



-Winter 



15-July and 



-Winter 



-Frost 



July 10-Frost 



Oct. 



Aug 



Winter 

 Frost 

 June 30-Winter 

 July 15-Frost 



Desirable for a family 

 of four (Feet of row) 



Maximum 



30 

 IS 



200 

 IOO 



So 

 5o 



200 

 200 

 200 



IOO 

 IOO 

 IOO 



Minimum 



25 

 25 

 30 

 25 



10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 



IOO 



20 



20 



15 



20 



25 



10 



50 

 30 



IOO 



25 



25 



96 



