The Farm Kitchen Garden

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 59, Issue 3, 15 September 1939, Page 256

The Farm Kitchen Garden

ONE of the advantages of living in the country is the facilities for producing ample supplies of fruit and vegetables for the family. To do this well and economically some systematic

method should be adopted. Orchard trees should not be planted in an enclosed area where the deep cultivation required for vegetables would interfere with fruit production, and the shade of the orchard trees would be detrimental to the vegetable crops. The area should be extended so that perennial crops, such as rhubarb, asparagus, seakale, and herbs, and also quickgrowing salad crops, may be grown without interference from the trees and fruiting shrubs. The main-crop annual vegetables, such as potatoes, root crops, peas, cabbage, etc., should be grown on land where horse or tractor implements can be used.

A good plan to follow is to grow the orchard trees in an area by. themselves. The garden area should then be quartered. one portion being devoted to

perennial small fruits, another to the perennial vegetable crops previously mentioned and herbs, and the other two to quick-growing salad crops, tomatoes, and seed beds for raising plants such as cabbage and cauli-

flowers for planting out with maincrop annual vegetables, which may be grown with the farm root crops by means of horse implements. By adopting a method of this kind better results can be obtained at much less cost.