CHAPTER XIV 



The Vegetable Garden 



Growing Plants for Setting Out — Digging and Preparing the Soil 

 — Sowing and Transplanting — Watering — General Principles, of 

 Cultivation — Harvesting and Storing — Companion Crops — Suc- 

 cession Crops — Cultivation of the Chief Vegetables — Useful 

 Pointers for the Vegetable Grower — Labeling Plants 



[It will be noted that we have not mentioned varieties throughout this 

 chapter. These are' chosen from the catalogs of your favorite seedsmen to 

 suit soil, location and individual preferences.] 



WHEN the Spring comes everybody thinks, or ought to think, 

 about gardens. Professor L. H. Bailey says: "The nature- 

 desire may be perpetual and constant, but the garden-desire 

 returns with every new Springtime." The possibilities of the garden 

 are very great, and the home or kitchen garden has become a national 

 and economic necessity as an adjunct to every home with a plot of 

 round, no matter how small. A bountiful provision of clean, newly 

 gathered produce, secured within a few yards of the kitchen door, 

 tends to diminish burdensome grocery and meat bills ; and as they are 

 not subject to deterioration in transportation and by exposure on the 

 markets, home-grown vegetables are always crisp and tender and 

 retain their characteristic flavor. 



An Amateur's Vegetable Garden 

 All the space utilized and everything growing luxuriantly 



