HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
KEEPING RECORDS 
A LL substantial progress is based upon properly kept 
* records. Memory is a poor friend. In gardening 
matters it forsakes you when you most need it, and to 
lose the records of one year often obliges the gardener 
to do that year’s work over again, to make the same mis- 
takes and get the same experience. 
Keeping records starts with the plan suggested on 
page 7. It continues with providing a marker or wooden 
label (as here shown) for every separate row and variety 
you plant in the garden. On this label put the variety 
name, the name of the seedsman from whom came the 
seeds, and the date seeds were sown. 
Keep a notebook to record every notable event in 
connection with each row of vegetables. Put down when 
the first crop was gathered, how much each row yielded, 
when the row became exhausted, what you planted as a 
second crop, etc., etc. Know what you are doing by put- 
ting it on record. 
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