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plowed at once and its planting in one day proves both 
impracticable and impossible, as much ground should be 
worked over lightly each day with forks and spade as 
will be planted that day. 
The hardiest vegetables, which may be sown as soon 
as frost is out of the ground, are radish, lettuce, spinach, 
onions from seeds or sets, carrots, beets, and smooth- 
seeded peas. Explicit directions as to how to sow and 
cover them will be found under the respective chapters. 
It pays best, in connection with most of them, to sow 
short rows often, say a week apart, rather than to sow 
large space all at once. The exception to this are peas 
and spinach of which several rows should be planted at a 
time, because their yield per row of short length is hardly 
sufficient for a meal. Experience in this matter will 
prove the most dependable teacher. 
About a week before the last frost is scheduled for your 
section, it is safe to sow a few rows each of bush beans and 
sweet corn. Two rows each fifteen feet long, planted a 
week apart from May 20th until middle of July, will 
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