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Show THE 1918 WAR GARDEN UTILIZING SMALL AREAS By DR. M. C. MERRILL, Horticulturist, Utah Agricultural College, in Co-operation with the United States Food Administration for Utah. T N THE cities and suburbs the home garden is often confined to a very JL small area. Intensive cultivation is the system that must prevail in such cases, if the garden is to be a success. To follow the practice of intensive in-tensive cultivation means that the soil must be very rich and well cultivated, culti-vated, but it also means something else. That is that the rows must be planted rather close together and that a system of companion and successive cropping must be adopted. Now, a companion crop is one that is grown in the same row alongside some other crop. In choosing companion crops, their size, method of growth, length of time and amount of plant food they take out of the soil are taken into consideration. A succession crop is one that occupies the land later in the same season on which some other crop has already been grown. Where two or more crops arc grown in this way on the same land in one season, it necessitates choosing those that mature rather quickly and can then be removed. The term "succession plantings" is also applied to the sowing of the same vegetable three or four times in one season. By whatever means you adopt, be sure every foot of your garden is working all season. |