THE THIRD TWENTY PER CENT., PART TWO—LATER PLANTING OF THE MORE HARDY VEGE- 
TABLES-CROPS THAT NEED SUPPORT—SPECIAL FERTILIZERS—WEEDING AND HOW TO DO IT 
by F. F. Rockwell 
Note: Heretofore the home garden has been looked on by many people as more or less of a hobby deserving only as much attention as one usually gives to the 
pursuit of recreation. That it deserves to be taken up seriously, studied in all its details and developed to the limit of its efficiency is a new presentation of the subject 
How to have the very best garden possible on a business basis is the theme of the pr.esent articles, although they are also planned to aid those who can give but limited 
time to the garden’s cultivation. They take up carefully and practically one detail after another in natural succession to the completion of the hundred per cent, garden. 
\TUe first' three articles dealt with the sowing of seeds indoors, solving the plant food problem and the planting of early vegetables, appearing in the February, March 
and April issues. The fourth twenty per cent, will deal with the cultivation of the garden. EDITOR. 
T HE directions given in the preceding article left the planting 
of the vegetable garden well under way, and all things 
which remain to be planted are of two sorts—the “tender vege¬ 
tables,” and the succession and late plantings of hardier varieties 
whose first crops have already been started. 
These must be treated carefully, for the enthusiastic beginner is 
likely to be in a hurry to get the balance of his planting done and 
be able to congrat¬ 
ulate himself that 
he has got the 
whole job finished. 
As a matter of fact 
a good gardener is 
never done plant¬ 
ing. There are a 
number of things 
such as lettuce, 
radishes, beans, 
beets, turnips 
which, in order to 
procure the very 
best quality in the 
product, he knows 
he must plant more 
or less continually 
throughout the 
whole season. And 
then there are in 
July late turnips 
from seed, and cab¬ 
bage, cauliflower 
and celery plants to 
be set out—and 
possibly on the 
Fourth of July a 
last planting of 
Golden Bantam 
sweet corn. Along 
in August, when it begins to grow a bit cooler again, some early 
peas such as Gradus or Latonian should be planted for a late fall 
crop; and still later, onions and spinach for wintering. 
Nevertheless, there is of course, a “planting season” and it is 
the second period of this, covering May and early June, that 
constitutes by far the most important feature of this month’s 
work in the garden. For the convenience of the person with a 
small garden and doing most of his work after business hours 
and on Saturdays, we will plan this work for four Saturday 
afternoons in r&'Iay, though of course the actual week day makes 
no difference. 
You may remember that the fact was emphasized that you 
could not be too early in getting your cabbages set out or your 
onions planted. Now the beginner who is apt to be over cautious 
in these things is 
just as likely to be 
too much in a 
hurry with his peas, 
tomatoes and other 
tender vegetables. 
He should realize, 
however, that the 
difference between 
the hardy and the 
tender vegetables is 
not a difference of 
dates on which they 
should be planted, 
but of their nature 
and requirements — 
a “race” difference, 
due to the climates 
from which they 
have been brought. 
Hardy plants thrive 
best in the cool, 
moist weather of 
late spring or early 
fall. Tender ones 
which are naturally 
tropical or sub¬ 
tropical, are “heat 
lovers” and must 
have warm weather 
before they will be¬ 
gin to grow properly. Absolutely nothing is gained by planting 
them until the conditions which they require exist, whether this 
be on May fifth or June fifteenth. You should be guided by the 
season—by the blossoming and the leaving out of the trees rather 
than by the calendar. In fact, in case of a backward season, 
tender vegetables that are set out or planted two or three weeks 
apart will begin to bear at about the same time—unless, indeed, 
Adequate supports for tomatoes are easily made by nailing laths or similar narrow, light pieces 
of wood across stout garden stakes at right angles. 
