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WHAT TO PLANT IX YOUR HACK YARD 497
and of extirpating weeds—his neglect of
either seriously reducing or even ruining
the crop—the amateur gardener frequently
fails to get all possible production
out of his land. He is largely content
with a few fresh vegetables in
spring and the early summer. As the
heat of July and August begins to envelop
the land, he too frequently abandons
his miniature farm, or at best gives
it but desultory attention. Drought converts
his green patch into sun-baked
earth, wilted vegetable plants, and a
flourishing forest of weeds.
This backsliding on the part of the
gardener is the height of unwisdom. He
is in a position, if he but knew, to reap
the benefit of his early enthusiasm and
assiduity. His labor is really an investment.
With moderate attention and
fresh planting he could have fresh vegetables
up to frost time. Some of these
he could preserve for winter use.
Such neglect will be especially reprehensible
under present conditions. In
the late summer and fall, in spite of that
being the harvest season, garden produce
—in this year of stress and strife—is
very likely to command high prices.
Especially is this neglect to be deprecated,
when we recall that the back yard
gardener usually has access to unlimited
quantities of water from his hydrant that
will carry him through any kind of
drought.
Here is a partial list of the common
vegetables that may be harvested in the
autumn. Some of them are impracticable,
of course, for the back lot gardener.
They are here enumerated to
show the possibilities: Kale, onion, carrot,
chard, parsley, parsnip, salsify, lima
beans, muskmelon, watermelon, okra,
squash, tomato, late cabbage, sweet corn,
eggplant, pepper, late potatoes, sweet
potato, celery, cucumber, beets, string
beans, lettuce (leaf), winter onion,
radish, spinach.
Back-yard gardening, no matter what
it may have been formerly, passes this
year out of the field of fad. It has become
a national duty. If you possibly
can, serve your country with the spade
and the hoe.
BROOKLYN STREET CAR MEN GET THE GARDEN "BUG"
Their spare moments are no longer spent in the recreation rooms pro*
vided but in helping along Uncle Sam's 1917 crop.