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The Busy Woman's Garden Book

Chapter 15: CHAPTER XII QUANTITY OF SEED REQUIRED
By Ida D. Bennett
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The guide offers concise, practical instruction for planning and maintaining a productive kitchen garden with minimal time and effort. Chapters cover site selection, soil fertility, hotbeds and cold frames, seed planting and transplanting, tools and cultivation techniques, and pest management, plus specific crops grouped by season and type. It also treats storage, canning, fall tasks, bulbs and shrubbery, continuous flowering, and adaptations for confined or urban spaces. Emphasis is placed on timing, small daily attentions, economy of labor and materials, and methods to maximize yield and plant health with limited time.

CHAPTER XII
QUANTITY OF SEED REQUIRED

Name Ounces Pounds Drill Hills Acre Plants
Asparagus 1 4–5     1 200
Beans 1 1 50      
Bush Lima 1 1 50      
Pole Lima 1 1 75–100      
Beets 1 5–6 50   1  
Brussels Sprouts 1   200      
Cabbage 1 4     ¼ 3000–4000
Cauliflower 1         3000
Carrots 1 3–4 100   1  
Chicory 1   100      
Celery 1         5000–6000
Cucumbers 1 2   50 1  
Corn Salad 3   100      
Collards 1         3000
Eggplant 1         1000–2000
Endive 1   300      
Kale 1         5000
Kohl-Rabi 1   300      
Lettuce 1         3000
Muskmelon 1 2–3     1  
Watermelon 1 4–5     1  
Onion 1 4–5 200   1  
Okra 1   100      
Parsley 1   150      
Parsnips 1 5–6 200   1  
Peppers 1         1000–1500
Peas   1 50      
Pumpkins 1   25      
Potatoes   13        
Radishes 1   100      
Rhubarb 1   125      
Salsify 1   50      
Squash 1 3–4   25 1  
Spinach 1 10–12 100   1  
Tomatoes 1         3000–4000
Turnips 1 1–2 200   1  

For those vegetables of which only a small quantity is grown the packets will be ample, most packets giving from one to two hundred plants, when started in the hotbed.