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Three Seasonal Gardens
These three gardens were planned by the
National Garden Bureau, an educational
service of the North American garden,
seed inchistry. Care was taken in drawing
the vegetables to scale to give you an
idea of how many plants of each vegetable
you can fit into a given size row.
Tall growing or perennial vegetables were
placed at the back of the garden.
Vegetables requiring cool growing weather
were chosen for the spring and fall gardens.
' Heat-tolerant kinds were Specified for
the summer planted garden. Rather than
suggest plantinigtiatesi the 'National
Garden Bureau advises that the spring
garden be 'planted as soon as the soil
can be worked. Wait until late-leafing
trees are greening up before planting your
summer garden (hickory, oak, pecan, tree
Of heaven). Plant your fall garden when
the hottest days of summer are past.
The Vegetable Garden:
A Valuable Family Possession
More and more families are starting vege-
table gardens or increasing the size of
present plots. With inflation, taxation,
and the energy crisis worsening, the
family garden is an,increasingly attrac-
tive place for productive recreation.
The family garden tan increase in value
every year as it improves in soil structure
and soil nutritional levels through your care.
A 600 sq. foot vegetable plot can easily
feed a family of four with plenty left
over for canning, freezing or drying.
What delightful luxury to feast on
vegetables from •your own garden,
knowing what the same vegetables would
cost if purchased.
Continuous Cropping:
Practical
Even beginning gardeners, with planning
• and care, can keep a steady stream of
vegetables flowing from the family
garden from late spring through fall.
Five major considerations enter the
choice of what to plant and where:
1. Do you and your family like the
vegetable?
2. How many days are required from
planting to harvest?
3. Does the vegetable prefer cool or
warm growing weather?
4. How large do the plants grow?
5. How many plants of each kind are
needed to feed your family?
After a few years' experience a home
gardener can whip out a garden plan for
the entire year in an hour or so. The
fun part comes in searching seed
catalogs and seed packet racks for ilia
the right varieties to make the plan
grow CO fruition.
Continuous Cropping:
Profitable
The national average 600 sq. foi?t
vegetable garden can bring a riet return of
$300tc4600 yearly, tax free. Just how
profitabledepends on:
1. Availability of tools and equipment
2. Length of growing season
3. Choice of vegetables; some are
more space-efficient than others.
4. Your skill in replacing'spent crops
with succession vegetables
Pick and Choose
from the 3 Gardens
The National Garden Bureau advises
gardeners that three complete gardens
on a single plot as shown in the plan are
-possibleonly-in-long-season-areas.
Therefore,,the major function.of these
plans is to help you visualize what you
can plant and where under your climatic
conditions. Select from the three gardens
rather than reproducing them literally.
Spcial Advice
for Short Season Areas
In parts of the USA and Canada with
frost free growing seasons of 90 to 120
days, many spring vegetables will
continue to bear through midsummer.
Plan to replace these with kinds chosen
from the fall garden selection.
Leave some rows open in the spring garden
to plant warmth-loving kinds chosen
from the summer, garden plan. Caution:
wait to plant until frost danger is past.
In short season areas, it is risky to
attempt to follow spring crops with summer
vegetables because September frosts may cut
down these late crops before they mature.
Special Advice for
Medium-Length Season Areas
Across middle America, frost free growing
seasons range in length from 120 to 240
days. Two full crops are possible and
usually consist of distinct spring and
summer crops. As the summer crops are
harvested the plants can be removed to
leave room for fall vegetables.
Special Advice
for Long Season Areas
Across the Deep South and the low-
elevation southwest and west coast, •
growing seasons range from 8 to 12 months
in length. Three distinct and complete
gardens on the same plot -are possible
and simple to achieve. In the Deep South,
spring is such a short season that certain
cool toying crops such as collards, turnips,
'broccoli, cauliflower andlate cabbage
are usually planted in late summer for
fall and winter harvest.
In extremely hot areas'two succession
crops of summer vegetables are planted
because intense heat will burn out all' '
vegetables except southern peas, okra,
butter beans and sweet potatoes,