HOW TO RUN THE ROWS

HOW TO RUN THE ROWS

Let us consider first a medium-sized garden with a southern exposure and protection from the north winds. 

This, of course, will be the earliest garden, for it gets all the sun light there is. 

 If the rows run east to west, the rays of the sun will shine only on the southern side of the row. 

If, however, they run north and south, the sun's rays will shine on the eastern side of the row in the morning and the western side in the afternoon.

 The latter method seems to me to give a more even growth. 

Let us now suppose the rows are planted east and west, the sun will shine earlist in the morning and slowly fade away as the day goes on.

 To prove that the ideal exposure for a garden is toward the south: also that the sun's rays striKe every portion of rows that run north and south, while only the south side of rows running east and west get the benefit of the sun all day.

Southern sun of summer will continuously draw the rows one way, southward only.  

This is another point in favor of north-and-south planting: for rows thus planted are drawn eastward by the morning sun, and this lean is corrected by the afternoon sun.

If the garden faces north (and by this I mean is unprotected from the north winds), would it would be a good idea to try and protect  with a small hedge, vines or a grape arbor? In this case of a  grape arbor, it  would give the greatest amount of protection if made in the old-fashioned lattice style with willow sticks. 

A high board fence can be made a thing of beauty by covering it with vines, particularly climbing roses.

If your garden faces southeast and is entirely cut off from the western sun, it is a good idea to run the rows northwest and southeast so to get the greatest period of sunlight, for in this setting every available ray is most valuable.

No matter how your garden may face, no matter what angles, curves or dimensions it may possess, you will see at once and very clearly the best thing to be done when you have it before you on paper with the area hit by the sun's rays shinning on it.