
prove Your Garden 
RES ie Crops. One obvious way to make the 
garden yield a steady flow of vegetables from early spring 
to late fall is the use of companion crops. Quick-maturing - 
vegetables like spinach, beans, kale, radishes and lettuce 
may be planted between or in rows of eggplant, melons, 
tomatoes, or other crops which remain in the garden. 
throughout the season. The early crops thus will mature 
before the later ones need the space they occupy to de- 
velop properly. 

Ne eds Planting. Succession planting is possi- 
ble in several ways. One crop may follow another in the 
same season. Sugar corn or late cabbage thus may fill the 
space vacated by the harvesting of early peas, radishes 
or snap beans. Or succession plantings of the same vege- 
tables may be made at intervals of a few days, to assure 
a continuous supply of sweet corn, snap beans or spinach 
until frost time. The planting of three kinds of corn at 
the same time, but with different maturing periods, offers 
a third method. 

{ RRR As soon as plants are big enough to handle, 
they should be thinned to make room for the growing 
vegetables to develop. Lettuce, for example, should be 
thinned as early as possible. Beets, carrots and onions can 
be allowed to reach edible size before thinning. Small 
fingerling carrots are fine flavored and small beets are 
excellent for pickling, while beet tops make delicious 
greens. Thinnings also offer material for transplanting to 
fill holes left by early harvesting. 

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