22 Home Vegetable Gardening 



keep it. A large piece of paper ruled as follows, for 

 instance, will require only a few minutes' attention 

 each week and yet will prove of the greatest assist- 

 ance in planning the garden next season. 



VEGETABLE GARDEN RECORD I9IO 



Variety 



Red Valentine. . . 



Golden Wax . . . . 

 Old Homestead., 

 Early Leviathan 



Fordhook 



Egyptian 



Eclipse 



\Y akefield 



Put in Ready 



May 10 



May 15 

 May 16 

 May 25 

 May 15 

 Apr. 10 

 Apr. 10 

 Apr. 9 



July 6 



July 22 

 July 2 6 

 Aug. 19 



June 12 

 June 14 

 Jtine 20 



Notes 



Not best quality. Try 

 other earlies 



Rusted. Spray next year 



Too many. 6 poles next year 



Good. Dry. 



Rotted. Try May 25 



Roots sprangled 



Better quality 



Injured by worms. Helle- 

 bore next year 



The above shows how such a record will be kept. 

 Of course, only the first column is written in ahead. 

 I want to emphasize in passing, however, the impor- 

 tance of putting down your data on the day you 

 plant, or harvest, or notice anything worth recording. 

 If you let it go until tomorrow it is very apt to be 

 lacking next year. 



Try these four short-cuts to success, even if you 

 have had a garden before. They will make a big 

 difference in your garden ; less work and greater re- 

 sults. 



