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House & Carden 
DRAFTING the GARDEN for WAR SERVICE 
What Sort of Garden You Will Need 7 his 1 ear, and How 1 ou Can 
Arrange to Have It—Eliminating Waste and Increasing the Yield 
F. L. ROCKWELL 
Y OUR garden this year is something more 
than a mere matter of personal pleasure. 
If you can have a garden you should help to 
grow all you can—there is no question about 
that. Actual world famine is something more 
than a possibility if the world war continues. 
Every pound of food you can produce this year 
will help, will be a concrete contribution to 
civilization. 
On the other hand, the seed waster will be 
as much of a social traitor as the food waster. 
Thousands of dollars’ worth—but, let us hope, 
fewer thousands — will be 
wasted this year. It is the 
duty of every intelligent 
gardener to cut this waste 
down to the minimum. 
How can the average 
home gardener help con¬ 
serve the short seed supply ? 
Not by curtailing his gar¬ 
dening, but by carefully 
planning his own garden 
to fit the conditions he has 
to face, so that everything 
he buys in the way of seed 
may be made to count to 
the utmost. 
The first step in this di¬ 
rection is to be absolutely 
frank with yourself in de¬ 
termining just what you ex¬ 
pect to do with your garden this year. Gen¬ 
erally speaking, your garden will be for one 
of three purposes—pleasure, quality vegetables 
for your table, or profit. Of course, there is no 
clear line of distinction between these three, 
two or all three of them may be combined in 
the same garden, but usually one predominates. 
What matters in the present instance is that it 
does make a difference whether you have a 
definite idea of just what you expect to have a 
garden for this year, and how much of a gar¬ 
den you are prepared to take really good care 
of. There may be just as much enjoyment 
and good exercise in a garden so large that it 
cannot be properly cared for, and that will be 
abandoned to its own devices during a long 
summer vacation, as there is in a small, well 
cared for garden planned for spring and fall 
use. But the person wdio would plant the 
former type of garden when he should have 
the latter would be foolish any year, and this 
year would be next to criminal. 
Consideration must be given both to the 
type of garden you would like to have and the 
conditions which exist in 
your particular case. You 
may desire a complete gar¬ 
den that shall include about 
everything in the way of 
vegetables that grows; but 
if your garden space is 
limited, or if this is your 
first season at gardening, 
you will do much better to 
be content with a shorter list 
of things. Soil and climate 
are other limiting factors 
which must be taken into 
consideration; it is a waste¬ 
ful use of seed and time to 
try to grow on rough, newly 
prepared ground vegetables 
which require a finely pul¬ 
verized, fertile soil. Even 
In this and succeeding pictures 
is told the story of keeping all 
the ground at work by succes¬ 
sion planting 
After the earth between the 
rows is forked up it is made 
smooth and fine by a thorough 
raking 
Vegetable 
When To Plant 
Beans, bush. 
Beans, dwarf lima 
Beans, pole. 
Beets. 
Brussels sprouts. 
Cabbage, early. . . 
Cabbage, late 
Carrots. 
Cauliflower. 
Celery, early. 
Celery, late. 
Corn, sweet. 
Cucumbers. 
Egg-plant. 
Endive. 
Kohlrabi. 
Lettuce. 
Muskmelon. 
Okra. 
Onion seed. 
Onion sets. 
Parsley. 
Parsnip. 
Peas. 
Pepper. 
Pumpkin. 
Radish. 
Salsify. 
Spinach. 
Squash, summer. 
Squash, winter. . 
Tomato. 
Turnip. 
Watermelon. 
May to August. 
May to June. 
May and June. 
March to July. 
April to June. 
March. 
July. 
April to June. 
April to May. 
April. 
July. 
April 15 to July 15. . 
May to July. 
May. 
June to July. 
April to July. 
March to September. 
May and June. 
] May and June. 
April and May. 
March to June. 
April and May. 
April and May. 
March to June. 
May and June. 
May and June. 
March to September 
April to May. 
March to September 
May and June. 
May and June. 
May and June. 
July and August. . . 
May and June. . . 
Number of 
Plantings for 
Space Required 
Seed or Plants for 
100' of Row 
No. Ft. of Row 
for Five 
Full Supply 
Rows Apart 
In Rows 
One Planting 
3-5 
18"-24" 
3-4" 
1 quart 
50 
2 
24"-30" 
6-8" 
1 pint 
50 
1 
4' 
3' 
Vi pint 
25 
3—4 
12"-18" 
3" 
2 ounces 
50 
2 
30" 
2' 
34 ounce 
25 
2 
2'-.3' 
2’ 
50-60 plants 
50 
i 
3' 
2' 
50 plants 
100 
3-4 
12"-1S" 
i' 
1 ounce 
50 
2 
30" 
2' 
50 plants 
50 
i 
2'-3 34' 
2'-3K' 
6" 
200 plants 
50 
i 
6" 
200 plants 
50 
3-5 
3' 
1' 
34 pmt. 
500 
2 
4' 
4' 
A ounce 
50 
1 
3' 
2' 
50 plants 
40 
1 
15"-18" 
T 
100 plants 
20 
O 
15"-1S" 
3"-4" 
34 ounce 
20 
3-6 
12"-15" 
6"-8" 
34 ounce 
50 
1 
6' 
4'-6' 
34 ounce 
100 
1 
1 
3' 
1' 
2 ounces 
25 
1' 
3" 
1 ounce 
100 
1 
T 
2" 
3 pints 
100 
1 
18" 
4" 
J4 ounce 
10 
1 
2' 
6" 
34 ounce 
100 
3-4 
2' 
1' 
1 quart 
300 
i 
3' 
2' 
50 plants 
50 
i 
8' 
6'-8' 
34 ounce 
50 
5-8 
12"-15" 
2" 
1 ounce 
20 
1 
18" 
4" 
1 ounce 
150 
2-3 
12"-1S" 
4" 
1 ounce 
50 
1 
4' 
4' 
34 ounce 
25 
1 
6'-8' 
6'-8' 
34 ounce 
50 
2 
3'-4' 
2'-3' 
33-50 plants 
75 
3-5 
12"-18" 
4" 
34 ounce 
40 
1 
8' 
6'-8' 
1 ounce 
40 
