=Plot B.=--The turnips will be off the ground, so will the couve
tronchuda and savoys before the end of the month, if possible trench
the onion bed for next season. Clean up all weedy corners. Continue to
blanch chicory and endive.
[Illustration: PLAN II.--SMALL KITCHEN GARDEN OF ABOUT 1/20 ACRE (57 ×
40 feet)]
This, or a slightly modified scheme, will be found to hold good for
a smaller plot of ground, even in such a small plot as is sketched
in Plan II the same methods will obtain. In this plan the asparagus
has been sacrificed, so have artichokes, but the latter could be
substituted for seakale, if desired. Beyond some cramping of the ground
the plots will carry nearly as many, though shorter, rows as in the
larger scheme. Possibly in Plot A the same number of rows could be
grown by slightly contracting the space between the celery trenches,
and by allowing only nine inches between the rows of root crops. This
is perfectly sound practice if only care is taken to thin the plants
so that those in adjacent rows do not come opposite each other, but
opposite the centre of the intervals between their neighbours.
In Plot B one row of peas would have to be sacrificed, and in Plot C
one row of potatoes and one of Brussels sprouts must go, but there
will be plenty of vegetables for a family of four, and probably enough
potatoes to last till Christmas.
This scheme of successive cropping will be found to be sound roughly
south of the Trent, but for northern and colder districts it would have
to be modified. With some modification as to the time of sowing, Plots
A and C would broadly stand as arranged, but Plot B would have its
times of sowing much later, the peas would have to be at least three
feet six inches apart, to make room for the winter and spring greens,
which would have to go out between the rows before the peas were off
the ground, and it is probable that all brassicas for winter and early
spring would be better sown in a cold frame.
But when all is said, this is only one of several possible schemes,
and every gardener as he learns his subject will be able to adapt it to
his special soil, climate, and household needs.