HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
BEANS— DWARF OR BUSH 
T>EANS are the easiest vegetable to grow in any 
carefully dug and raked garden. They thrive in 
most any soil. 
Iiow to Sow. Place furrows from eighteen inches to 
two feet apart, about two inches deep, and drop seeds four 
inches apart in the row. They will sprout and push 
through the soil in from five to seven days. Make the 
first sowing when the maple trees unfold their leaves 
— about the middle of May. The average packet of 
bean seeds (about a half pint) contains enough to sow 
fifty feet of row. A fifteen-foot row of any of the im- 
proved sorts recommended later will yield about twenty 
quarts of pods from the time the first pods form until 
the plants cease bearing. Ask yourself “how many 
beans do we want?” Then plan to secure the supply by 
planting at frequent intervals. Extra early kinds may be 
sown up to within sixty days of first frost. 
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