SEEDS AND PLANTING DEPTHS 



Be sure to buy your seeds from the best seedsman or seed 

 store you can find. Your teacher or your parents can tell 

 you where to get them. 



The smallest packets you can buy will give you enough 

 of each of the smaller seeds. For a 20-foot row buy i gill 

 of corn or 2 gills of beans or peas. 



The depth at which a seed should be planted depends on 

 its size and the heaviness of the soil. A general rule is to 

 plant a seed four times as deep as its thickness ; but this rule 

 cannot always be followed strictly. They may be planted 

 deeper in a light than in a heavy soil, and deeper after 

 the soil has become thoroughly warm than in early spring. 



Soaking the large seeds over night in water is a good plan 

 if you are sure to plant them next day. It is not necessary 

 to soak seeds, although it hastens sprouting one or two days. 



Early varieties of vegetables should be selected by those 

 who are beginning garden work. 



Later you will be told about testing your seeds (page 37) 

 and raising your own seedlings (page 38). 



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