94 Home Vegetable Gardening 



Celery Endive Kale Kohlrabi 

 Lettuce Onions Parsley Parsnip 

 Peas Radish Spinach Turnip 



Water-cress 



Sow from the beginning of May to the middle of 

 June, or when apple trees bloom, the following: 

 Beans Corn Cucumber Melon, musk 



Melon, water Okra Pumpkin Squash 

 Tomato 



Getting the seed to sprout, however, is only the 

 first step in the game; they must be provided with 

 the means of immediately beginning to grow. This 

 means that they should not be left to germinate in 

 loosely packed soil, full of air spaces, ready to dry 

 out at the first opportunity, and to let the tiny seed 

 roots be shriveled up and die. The soil should touch 

 the seed — be pressed close about it on all sides, so 

 that the first tiny tap root will issue immediately 

 into congenial surroundings where it can instantly 

 take hold. Such conditions can be found only in a 

 seed-bed fine but light enough to pack, reasonably 

 rich and sufficiently moist, and where, in addition 

 to this, the seed has been properly planted. 



METHODS OF PLANTING 



The seed-bed, as it is called, is the surface pre- 

 pared to receive the seed, whether for a patch of 



