64 GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 



methods to secure in the kitchen garden satisfactory re- 

 sults. 



For instance, in the fall a portion of the garden may be 

 occupied with spinach ; this should be heavily manured, 

 and may keep the ground until time to plant melons and 

 other vines, when just enough of the ground may be 

 deeply dug to form the melon hills, and the crop will be 

 ready to remove before the melons begin to run. The 

 melon crop may be followed by one of turnips. All such 

 plants as radish, lettuce, and other small salads, need take 

 up no room ; they can, any of them, be raised between 

 the potato beds or drills, or between melon hills, rows of 

 corn, etc., and they will come to perfection before the potato 

 or other crops require the ground. Radishes can be raised 

 between the rows in the beds of all kinds of plants that 

 are slow in coming up, as carrots, parsnips, etc., and will 

 be ready to remove by the time the others come up. 



Any vacant spot that occurs early in summer should be 

 occupied with plantings of extra early or sweet corn, po- 

 tatoes, beets, kidney beans, for preserving for winter use, 

 and cucumbers for pickling. Those coming later in the 

 season may be occupied by sweet potatoes until July, then 

 corn, cow-peas, or rutabaga turnips. Where the early 

 onions grow, both in the alleys and in the centre of the 

 bed, before much of the crop is removed, may be planted 

 with late cabbages or Siberian kale. Cabbages will head 

 if the winter sorts be planted as late as the early part of 

 August, and Early Yorks put out in September, if in rich, 

 moist ground, and well cultivated. Sweet corn may be 

 planted until August. Still later, every unoccupied corner 

 should be covered with turnips and winter radishes, which 

 may cover nearly the whole garden, being sown in drills 

 between the rows of plants not yet quite ready to be re- 

 moved. After the frost has come, any vacant spaces 

 should be immediately sown with spinach, onions, and 

 other crops for early spring use, or with barley or rye for 



