HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
MAKING A PLAN 
T HE best gardens generally are those started on 
paper, with a pencil. Just like the builder of 
a house goes by a blue print, so should the maker of a 
garden follow a carefully thought-out plan. 
Draw your garden plan to a scale, say one-eighth of 
an inch for every foot of ground. Lay out the garden in 
fifteen-foot beds, running the rows across the bed. Put 
a two-foot path in both front and back, where you can 
turn with the wheelhoe or deposit weeds, stones, etc., 
prior to their removal. 
Run the rows any way you like — east and west or 
north and south — it makes no difference. Place them as 
far apart as is suggested under the various chapters. A 
good general rule to follow is to allow as much space be- 
tween the rows as equals the height of the plants when 
fully grown. For instance, bush beans grow about 
eighteen inches tall. Then allow from eighteen inches 
to two feet between the rows of bush beans. 
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