Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-05-04
SOWING THE SEED
How Much Should Be Allowed For
a Family of Four.
LAYING OUT THE GARDEN.
Specialists Advise the Making Of
Rough Plan Of the Garden Whereon
Spaces to Be Used For Each Variety
Of Vegetable Can Be Indie ated.

Prepared b. United States department of
agricultural
The home gardener will find it help
full to make rough plan Of his garden
on large sheet of wrapping paper.
On this plan he can indicate the spaces
to be used for each variety and also by
means OF colored pencils or symbols
show where second crop is to be
planted or interplanted between grow
ing rows and also arrange for the Sec
Ond and third crops which are to fol
low those previously harvested Such
plan will enable him to keep the gar
den busy all season supplying fresh
vegetables during the summer and pro-
ducing In the late fall root and other
crops for winter use. Once the heavy
preliminary spading and working of
the garden have been done it is about
as easy to raise two or three crops as
to keep the garden clean Of weeds to
produce only one picking. The spe
cialists advise those who are not used
to gardening or wish to have their
children take an interest in the gard en-
to hire a laborer to do the heavy pre-
liminary spading or breaking up Of tn,
soil. This heavy work frequently dis
gusts nOvices and children, who would
continue to take an interest in the gar
den II their task was simply to fine
and cultivate soil already broken up.
The following amounts Of seed the
garden specialists Of the United States
department Of agriculture say are
needed to plant approximately 100 feet
Of row. or enough to supply vegeta.
bles for family Of four:
Beans. snap. one pint.
Beans. pole lima. one-half pint.
Beans. bush lima, one-half to one pint.
Cabbage, early. one-half ounce.
Carrot one ounce.
Caulifower. one packet.
Celery. one packet.
Cucumber. one-half ounce.
Eggplant. one packet.
Kale or Swiss chard. one-half ounce.
Parsley, one packet.
Parsnips one-half ounce.
Satisfy. one ounce.
Squash. summer one-half ounce.
Squash. Hubbard type one-half ounce.
The following vegetables, the spe.
cialists say, will undoubtedly be plant.
ed in larger amounts than those just
mentioned, and the amounts Of seed
given will be guide for ordinary re.
quirements Some families may need
more of the various vegetables. and
others would need less:
Beet. four ounces.
Cabbage. late, one-half to one ounce.
Corn, sweet, one pint.
Lettuce. one ounce.
Muskmelon, one ounce.
Onion sets. two quarts.
Peas, garden, two to four quarts.
Radish, one to two ounces.
Spinach, one-quarter pound in spring
and one-half pound in fall.
Tomatoes. late. one-quarter ounce.
Turnips. one-quarter pound
Watermelon. one ounce.
The string beans. bush lima beans.
sweet corn. lettuce, peas and radishes
will not all be planted at one time. but
successive paintings two to three
weeks apart will he made so as to
have a fresh supply throughout the
season.
OF early Irish potatoes one peck to
one-half bushel will be required and
Of late potatoes one-half bushel to one
bushel or more. depending upon the
amount Of ground available for this
purpose. If possible, enough Irish po-
tatoes should be grown to last through
out the winter.
in the event that the family wishes
to raise vegetables to supply current
needs and also to supply surplus for
canning the amounts indicated above