A well planned garden is started on 
paper first. There are several reasons 
for this, but the main one is to keep 
your garden producing during all the 
growing season. 
Chart it out to scale on paper and keep 
a record so that you can rotate your 
crops correctly as well as plan your 
succession crops, catch crops, and inter- 
crops, You will save ground space too, 
and that means less watering and less 
weeding to be done. Sit down and use 
the pencil and you save standing up 
and using the hoe. 
On page 38 of our Garden Annual you 
will find a comprehensive guide that 
will give you all the information you 
need to plan your garden on paper. 
The amount of seed required, the 
proper spacing between seeds and rows, 
the growing period and the approxi- 
mate yields are all shown in this guide. 
The best procedure is to start with a 
rough sketch. Try all your ideas in 
combinations during this rough sketch 
stage. When you have what you want, 
convert y@ur rough sketch into a final 
plan, drawn to scale, A scale of one 
quarter of an inch representing one 
foot works very well, because by using 
One sixteenth of an inch as three inches, 
almost any standard spacing of the 
rows can be shown in exact scale, 
The most important point to remember 
in planning your vegetable garden is 
family preference, If they’re fond of 
beans, for instance, don’t be satisfied 
with a single large planting, but make 
several smaller plantings at two week 
intervals. 
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Divide the garden into three sections 
if possible. 
(1) Root vegetables, (2) Leaf vegeta- 
bles, (3) Fruit vegetables, 
By switching these three groups every 
year you avoid many soil-borne diseases 
and insects and get better use of ferti- 
lizers. This isn’t absolutely necessary, 
but it is one of those details that the 
smart gardener watches. 
High growing vegetables such as sweet 
corn, pole beans and staked tomatoes 
should preferably be on the north side 
of your garden, otherwise they will 
ultimately cut off the life-giving sun- 
light from your lower growing vegeta- 
bles. Your sweet corn area is better 
planned if it is grouped in a square 
rather than a long row or two. This 
insures better and easier pollinization. 
Substitutions 
Plant early in space 
later required by 
spreading squash vines. 
Mustard 
Garden 
Cress 
Summer Squash 
Plant early in space 
later required by 
spreading squash vines. 
Spinach 
Spinach 
Beans—Lima or Green Soy 
Bush Beans followed by late Lettuce 
Bush Beans followed by Cauliflower 
Late Peas followed by late Cabbage 
Midseason Peas followed by late 
Cabbage 
2nd early Peas followed by Ruta- 
bagas 
Ist early Peas followed by Brussels 
Sprouts 
Carrots, Radishes, 
Kohlrabi 
followed by 
Early Beets followed by Carrots, 
Radishes 
Lettuce followed by late Beets 
Kohlrabi followed by Endive 
These plans will produce a balanced 
diet for a family of four. Climbing 
vine crops and tomatoes can be tied 
to adjoining fences thus saving 
space and staking work. 
