Show edible period of many vegetables lengthened tinny many of our best vegetables are edible for a very short period of time for example ameet corn s used for food only when it la Is in the roasting ear stage when past this hits stage it cannot be used the same Is true irue of such crops ns as beans peas lettuce spinach radishes and nany others the edible period of such vegetables run ibe be greatly lengthened by a succession plantings of at different dates F for or example it if a yow row or two of sweet corn la Is planted every two weeks from early in may until the rhe first of july the roasting ear season w will I 1 11 be extended from two kwo to three weeks to nearly two months this succession I 1 of plantings con can be practiced for many other vegetables us as well with the result that the fresh vegetable season will be greatly lengthened |