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though by dint of hard labor one gets some re¬ 
sults, they are not nearly so good as would have 
been attained with vegetables suited to such a 
soil. In the same way, it is not economical to 
try to grow long season varieties where the 
growing season is so short that they will fail, 
or mature only a small part of their normal 
yield. In the accompanying lists of vegetables 
for special conditions I have mentioned both 
those which are particular about soil prepara¬ 
tion and fertility, and those requiring a long 
season of growth. 
Different Types of Gardens 
There are several types of garden you may 
elect to have. To make definite distinctions, 
we may mention the pleasure garden, the 
efficiency garden, the little garden, the com¬ 
plete garden and the part-time garden. 
The pleasure garden is, as the name sug¬ 
gests, primarily for the fun of the thing—and 
that is a perfectly legitimate reason for having 
a garden, even in these times. It is much less 
expensive than golf or tennis, just as good 
exercise, and, to many, just as much fun. But 
certainly there is more pleasure to be had in a 
garden that is successful than in one that is 
a failure, so that even if the utility side of your 
garden is of secondary importance, neverthe¬ 
less you are interested in planning and plant¬ 
ing a garden that will succeed. And success 
cannot be attained without preliminary thought. 
For the pleasure garden, however, you will 
not be restricted in making your choice of 
vegetables by considerations of economy and 
food value. You feel free to attempt “honey 
dew” melons, or okra, or pe-tsai, or fennel, re¬ 
gardless of the fact that cabbage, turnips and 
rutabagas could be grown with much less 
trouble and would produce many times as 
much for the table. But it is easy to attempt 
too much in a garden of this kind, and they 
are often very wasteful gardens: I have fre¬ 
quently seen horse loads of surplus vegetables 
that had “gone by,” carried away from such 
gardens to the dump. Carelessness in plan¬ 
ning for your actual needs, and the wasteful 
employment of labor for work of this kind, 
will be inexcusable this year. 
Cover the seed in the drill with the 
back of a rake, pulling the soil over it 
from both sides 
The third step is to make a drill or 
shallow trench for the new seed, guided 
by a marking line 
Next comes the planting. The onion 
rows are far enough apart to give the 
new seed a chance to grow 
VEGETABLES for SPECIAL PURPOSES 
For 
the Small Garden 
Beans 
Parsley 
Foie beans 
Parsnips 
Beets 
Peas (?) 
Carrots 
Radish 
Lettuce 
Spinach 
Celery 
Swiss chard 
Kohlrabi 
Summer squash 
Onion, sets 
Tomatoes 
Onion, seeds (?) 
Turnips 
For the Efficiency Gardei 
Beans 
Lettuce 
Foie beans 
Onions 
Beets 
Swiss chard 
Cabbage ( ?) 
Turnips 
Carrots 
Tomatoes 
koiiirabi 
Parsnips (?) 
For 
the Salad Garden 
Chives 
Lettuce 
Corn salad 
Onion sets 
Cress 
Mustard 
Celery 
Leek 
Cucumbers 
Pe-tsai 
Cos lettuce 
Radishes 
Chicory (Whitloof) 
Tomatoes 
Endive 
Vegetables That Will Do Well on New Soil 
Beans 
Beets 
Cabbage 
Carrots ( ?) 
Corn 
Cucumbers 
Peas 
Vegetables 
Lima beans 
Carrots 
Celery 
Egg-plants 
Endive 
Lettuce 
Vegetables 
Pumpkin 
Radish 
Spinach 
Squash 
Tomatoes 
Turnips 
That Require Especially 
PARED ANI) FERTILE SOIL 
Onions 
Parsnips 
Peppers 
Potatoes 
Salsify 
Well Pre- 
EOR THE 
Before Early July 
Beans 
* Beets 
* Cabbage (earliest) 
Carrots 
*Corn (earliest) 
* Lett uce 
Onion sets 
Peas 
Radish 
Spinach 
* Started under glass 
After Mid-August 
■ : Pole beans 
‘Lima beans 
Brussels sprouts 
Cabbage 
Beets 
Vegetables Requii:ing 
Lima beans, pole 
Late sweet corn (second 
planting) 
Egg-plant 
"Early-and-Late” 
Garden 
Carrots 
Celery 
Sweet corn 
‘ Cucumbers 
Endive 
* Melons 
‘Onions 
* Parsnips 
‘Peppers 
‘Radish 
‘Salsify 
‘Swiss chard 
‘Squash 
Tomatoes 
Turnips 
Vegetable 
* Planted at usual time. 
Balance planted or trans¬ 
planted in late June. 
a Long Growing Season 
Melons (except earliest va¬ 
rieties) 
Peppers (late varieties) 
The efficiency garden is, of course, to be 
planned for the fullest possible returns. But 
even so it cannot be a standardized garden. 
Circumstances alter cases. The vegetables 
which are, as a general thing, the most profit¬ 
able to grow are mentioned in the efficiency 
garden list. Potatoes are not included; for 
small gardens, usually, they are not profitable, 
as they are difficult to grow successfully and 
require a long season and a good deal of room 
in comparison with a number of other things. 
If you can obtain enough land to have a potato 
patch in addition to your regular garden, that 
is another thing; if you are sure you will have 
time to attend to them properly, it will pay 
to try them, but don’t plunge too heavily the 
first time. More people fail with potatoes than 
with almost any other garden vegetable. 
If you have more time for gardening, in 
proportion, than you have ground, the efficiency 
garden should be planned and worked as in¬ 
tensively as possible; that means rows as close 
together as possible, interplanting, companion 
crops, tomatoes and peas staked up, etc. If, 
however, your time is more limited than your 
garden space, plan your garden so that it can 
be easily taken care of, either with wheel hoe 
or horse—rows uniform distances apart, little 
or no interplanting, dwarf peas that do not re¬ 
quire brushing, etc. 
Above all, for the efficiency garden, plan to 
grow a good supply of root crops for fall and 
winter, such as rutabagas, turnips, beets and 
carrots, all of which can be planted to follow 
the earlier spring crops. They are easy to 
grow, free from insects and diseases, and pro¬ 
duce very heavily—a bushel or more to a SO' 
row in good soil. 
The Little Garden 
The little garden is always somewhat of a 
problem so far as planning is concerned. Even 
in a garden as small as 20' by 40' you can 
have some of practically all of the vegetables 
there are to be grown; but as a general thing 
it will be much more satisfactory to limit the 
number of things in a small garden so as to 
have a supply of each that will be worth while. 
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Finally, firm the soil. The roll's of 
onions will be out of the way before the 
vegetables between mature 
