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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 choseafor 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 beforeplanting 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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The -Vegetable Garden:
A Valuable Family Possession
More and tInore,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. •
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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 •
Evettbeginning 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
thoite-of—what-tb plant and where:
I. 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 lants 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.
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
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 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 4angeris, 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 loving crops such as collards, turnips,
broccoli, cauliflower and late cabbage
are usually planted in late summer for
fall and winter harvest.
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
profitable depends on:
1. Availability of tools and equipment
2. Length of growing season
3. Choice of vegetables; some are
more space -efficient than oche -
4. Your skill in replacing spent crops
with succession vegetabie.
In extremely hot areas two succession
crops of summer vegetables are planted
he, a us' nrense heat will burn out all
vegf•al,:e• except southern pear At ,
butter beans and sweet potatoet,