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In the vegetable garden featured above, the total seed cost is just $3.10, capable of yielding $100-worth of fresh 
vegetables. For the beginner, fertilizer and tools may be an extra expense, but clearly the potential savings are 
worthwhile. Time spent in the garden can be written off as healthy exercise. 
People who have never gardened in their lives before are suddenly 
digging up weed patches to plant productive vegetable gardens. The 
big incentive for doing this is economy, since a family of four can save 
up to $100 on grocery bills by letting their garden produce essential 
fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, lettuce, beets, zucchini squash, 
bush beans and peppers 
Even a small area just 10 feet wide by 15 feet deep can provide 
bountiful harvests of tasty vitamin-rich vegetables from spring until 
fall, with time spent on weeding and fertilizing written-off as healthy 
exercise 
The garden design shown above fits into the average backyard with 
ease, will provide a family of four with fresh vegetables from just 
$3.10 seed cost, and requires no backbreaking work to take care of 
It's a versatile garden, and the rank beginner can cut it down to even 
smaller size if wanted. Also, other vegetable preferences can be 
substituted for those shown in the diagram 
Radish, for example, can be added without much extra space; 
eggplant could be substituted for peppers: cauliflower instead of 
cabbage; sweet corn:in place of zucchini squash—and so on 
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As few as six hybrid tomato plants will produce bushels of fruit 
Beets can be planted and harvested within 50 days, then started 
again. Zucchini squash grows fast and forms a dense bush, producing 
the fruits over a long period if picked regularly. Carrots are best picked 
when young and tender, and parsley is the most useful herb to have in 
the garden, providing extra flavor to so many dishes 
Bush beans are extra productive, and many varieties will mature 
within 50 days. If the garden produces more beans than the family can 
eat, they are easy to freeze 
The tomatoes, peppers, and cabbage are best started early indoors 
— about six to eight weeks before transplanting into the garden 
Lettuce, carrots, parsley, bush beans and zucchini squash are best 
direct-sown into the garden 
In order to obtain full value from a vegetable garden, try succession 
sowings. For example, sow cabbage in spring, then again in mid- 
summer. At least two crops of lettuce are possible by the same 
procedure. Also, two plantings of bush beans and carrots will stretch 
out the supply of fresh vegetables. With beets, three sowings are 
possible from a single packet — one in April, another in June, and a 
third in early August 
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