HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
careful management, yield all the vegetables desired 
between June and October, besides providing an abundance 
of root crops for winter use. 
The first thing to do is to draw a plan to a scale, dividing 
the garden into say, four sections, each equalling twenty- 
five to fifty feet. In the properly balanced garden one 
section will, perhaps, be devoted to potatoes. Under 
favorable circumstances, the ten fifty-foot rows should 
yield from eight to ten bushels of potatoes. Another 
section should be devoted to root crops of a long growing 
season, such as long beets, parsnips, salsify, witloof 
chicory, etc. The third section should be set aside for 
quickly maturing extra early spring crops, such as 
radishes, lettuce, green onions, etc., while section number 
four would serve for crops requiring more space and a 
long season, like peas, Swiss chard, etc. 
Now, let us take the sections one by one, to work out a 
practical programme. Section No. i, planted to potatoes, 
will be busy all season producing that crop unless a very 
early maturing sort is chosen. In that case the ground 
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