Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-04
HOME GARDENS
A Model Backyard Garden.

The department of agriculture has found in one of our eastern cities a backyard garden which it regards as 9 model. This back yard is of a kind 'ypical in cities which built, houses on narrow frontages with common side walls, the houses being open to the air only in front and back.
 This particular house occupies the Behind the house is a yard extending back 70 feet to an alley. Tn the rear of the yard is small tool shed, } by 10 feet in dimensions. The alley is fence, and the sides of the yard from the house to the alley are also bound ed by fences of the same sort.
 The owner of this property has aid the back yard off as a permanent .rafden. The side fences has made to act as treilises for grape vines, having A of these vines planted at 10-foot intervals. Down each side of the yard, parallel to the side fences and four feet away from each run walks. two and a half feet wide, from the house to the alley, of the walks and turning around the shed to meet the other walk at the extreme rear of the yard.
 In the space between the walks, a space 12 feet wide, is the vegetable garden proper. The owner, however, Goes not give up his back yard en- tirely to the garden Immediately be- hind the house between the two walks Is concrete pavement five feet wide and running back from it a grass plot Is feet long and 12 feet wide (the distance between the wallls)-
 This gardener has bordered the two walks on both sides with straw berry sufficient to give him an abundance Of strawberries in season.
 Between the strawberries and the grapevines on the fence he has set o:It Is currant bushes at 10-foot intervals. Between the currant bushes he finds room for various sets of beans, egg plant and the like. which make an at tractive background for the walks
 In the rear of the yard, opposite the shed, he has made his permanent as paragus bed in space 3 by feet.
 The rest of the garden is given over to cloSe-Srowing. low, and quick maturing vegetables, such as radishes, beets, lettuce, carrots, parsnips peas, onions, and beans. He finds room for 30 rows of these, each row nearly 12 feet long.
 Although in 3, northern climate. this gardener succeeds in making his ground produce two crops each year. When the early peas are gathered he plants more early peas and kale in their rows. The late peas have no successor crops, but there were only -wo rows of late peas, against six rows of the other variety. The onion sets. when pulled are succeeded by tomato vines, trained a dozen plants about a single stem Among the to- matoes, spinach, which can be gath cred until snow flies and after that is planted.
 Two crops of beans, early and late. are grown in four rows with winter onions growing among the late bean plants- Two crops of carrots are pro- duced on two rows, while four rows of beets later give way to cabbage Lettuce and parsnips and radishes sown in close rows in the rear of the garden, produce second crops and all so provide space for some late beans
 This garden produces nearly all it's owner food needs during large por- ton of the year. The department of agriculture advises home gardeners to study this model and adapt its meth ods to their own spaces.