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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 industry. 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 planting dates, 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.
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Pick and Choose
from the 3 Gardens
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 can 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` aa11.
rive 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 just
the right varieties to make the plan
grow to fruition.
Continuous Cropping:.
Profitable -
The national average 600 sq. foot
vegetable garden can bring a net return of
$300 to $600 yearly, tax free. Just how
refitable-deperrds on.
1. Availability of tools and equipment
,....4eLength of growing season
3. Choice of vegetables; some are
mote -space -efficient than oche-,
4. Your skill in replacing spent :rops
with successior vegetao.zs
The National Garden Bureau advises
gardeners that three complete gardens
on a single plot as shown in the plan are
possible only 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.
Special 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 rnidsurnmer.'
Plan to replace these with kinds chosen
_from the fall garden selection. •
Leave some rows open in the spring garden
toplant 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 •
to. follow—spengroprteitfrstrmmer
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,xsimple to achieve, In the Deep South,
spring is such a short season that certain
cool loving crops such as collards, turnips,
roccoli, cauliflower and late cabbage
axe_usually planted in lace cummeriot___
fall and winter har've'st.
In extremely hot areas two succession
crops of summer vegetables are planted
necause ;n:ense Ilea; wi.`'! burn out al;
vege:abies except southern peas. )kra,
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