Show edible period of many vegetables lengthened many of our best vegetables are edible for n very short period of time for example sweet corn Is used for food only when it is in the roasting ear stage when past this stage it cannot be used the same Is true of euch crops as beans peas lettuce spinach radishes and many others the edible period of such vegetables can be greatly lengthened bv a sue cession of plantings at different dales for example if a row or two of sweet corn Is planted eer two from eaily in slay until the first of july the roasting air season will be ex tended from two to three to pearly two months succession of plantings can be practiced for ganv other vegetables as well with the re ault that the fresh vegetable season ft III be greatly lengthened |