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The first SO' of the planted area, in which the short season crops are so arranged that when they are harvested their places will be 
taken by plantings of others. The grouping of the pole beans, corn and tomatoes at one end eliminates the hindrance which 
their shade would be were it to fall on the smaller growing vegetables 
THE FOUR STAGES of the GARDEN 
A Graphic Portrayal of What Cross Sections of the Vegetable Area Should Be ai 
Monthly Intervals During the Active Growing Season 
V ISUALIZING a whole vegetable garden 
is no easy task—real visualizing, that is, 
in which a worm’s-eye as well as a bird’s-eye 
view of each and all the rows is presented. 
Difficult as is the undertaking, however, it 
must be attempted if you would have a garden 
of one hundred per cent productiveness, for the 
simple reason that all of the ground must be 
kept working all of the time. There must be 
no waste of either time or space. To accom¬ 
plish this a knowledge of each row’s condition 
throughout the season is essential; hence the 
necessity for visualizing. 
In depicting garden layouts the usual method 
is to show a ground plan of the arrangement 
as it appears from above. However detailed 
and explanatory such .plans may be they are 
not really graphic—they lack the worm’s-eye 
perspective. In an attempt to overcome their 
deficiencies the chart shown here was developed. 
The First Stage 
Imagine, for the moment, that it is May 15th 
and that you are looking simultaneously at the 
G. T. HUNTINGTON 
Chart data prepared by F. F. Rockwell 
topmost horizontal line of the chart on this 
page and down the rows of your vegetable gar- 
den-as-it-should-be. You are facing the south, 
with the east at your left and at your right 
the west, because the planted rows run north 
and south for the sake of an even distribution 
of sunlight through the day. Thus placed you 
can see only the first plant in each row, but 
others are beyond, extending in orderly lines 
for 50' or more like soldiers standing at atten¬ 
tion in “company front.” 
Beginning at the left or east end of the 
garden, then, you notice that the first 18" of 
space (each of the vertical divisions of the 
chart represents 1') are unoccupied. Then 
comes the first row—pole bean seedlings under 
portable glass forcers, for the season is early 
yet and beans need heat. Another 18" to the 
west is a row of onion sets, and next to it, at 
the same distance, the pole limas, also under 
glass. Spinach, young tomato plants and the 
rest follow in their order and at proper inter¬ 
vals as you follow the line to the west end of 
the garden, 100' away at the right side of 
page 53. The late peas and much of the main 
corn crop do not show above ground as yet, 
for they have just been planted. Throughout 
the whole 100' you will notice that the spacing 
of the rows depends upon such points as culti¬ 
vation requirements, the size and habit of the 
mature plants, and the period through which 
they occupy the ground. 
The Second Stage 
One month later, on the line below, growth 
has correspondingly advanced. The first spin¬ 
ach, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beets, 
lettuce, turnip, kohlrabi and carrots are ready 
for use, and within the next month their places 
will usually be taken either by succession plant¬ 
ings or sowings of late season crops. In the 
cases of the onion row between the pole beans 
and the limas, the spinach between the limas 
and the tomatoes, and the radishes between 
the two rows of tomatoes, the growth of the 
flanking vegetables is such that by July 15th 
it heavily shades the intervening spaces. For 
this reason intercrops are chosen which will 
