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SUMMER 
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AUTUMN VEGETABLES 
By Caref ul Succession Planting the Food Garden Will Yield Its 
1 ncrease Far Into the Whiter 
JOSEPH HENRY SPERRY 
T HERE is no exact date which marks 
the passing either of the early 
s P r i n g, or summer vegetables. Before 
all the crops resulting from the early spring 
plantings have been gathered, the plants 
which give summer vegetables are up and 
growing on, and while the gathering of 
these summer vegetables is still progressing, 
the plants upon which we depend for our 
autumn crops are under cultivation. 
To obtain the maximum quantity of high 
quality vegetables from our garden, espe¬ 
cially if this is of a somewhat restricted 
area, is a problem of first importance, the 
niost obvious solution of which is the grow¬ 
ing of two crops, as far as possible, on the 
same space in the same season. 
I he growing in the same season of a 
second crop where the first grew is not fea¬ 
sible in all cases. Seeds of some kinds 
which produce mid-summer, or even autumn 
crops have to be sown at the same time as 
those which produce the early spring vege¬ 
tables. In short, there are certain crops 
which occupy the ground the entire season 
through, or so much of it that it is too late 
after they are gathered to plant a second 
crop where they grew. To this class of 
vegetables which occupy the space in our 
garden the entire season, belong parsnip, 
parsley and salsify, some part of each of 
which need not be gathered till the follow¬ 
ing spring, and also onions grown for the 
winter supply. Tomato and egg plants al¬ 
so occupy the ground the entire season after 
they are transplanted into the garden, but 
they can follow the early spinach, lettuce 
and radish, which will have been harvested 
by May 10 to 20, quite early enough for 
setting out tomato and eggplant in the open 
garden, and in this way two crops are grown 
on the same space. Some amateur gar¬ 
deners who are always trying to rush the 
season set tomato and eggplants at an ear¬ 
lier date between the early cabbage or cauli¬ 
flower plants or the rows of vegetables that 
pass off the stage early, doing this without 
any special preparation of the ground for 
the second crop. Such gardening, it seems 
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The word “Plant,” used in this plan , indicates 
that, plants raised in hotbed and cold frame are 
transplanted into the rows. In all other rows 
seeds are planted. “Followed by” means that as 
soon as the vegetable mentioned before these 
words is gathered , the ground is to be dug over 
again and the vegetable mentioned after these 
words planted or transplanted into the same row, 
so as to raise two crops in them each season 
