CHAPTER IX 

 SOWING SEEDS OUTDOORS 



IF you have made a garden plan on paper keep it 

 before you now, for it is wonderful how easy it is to 

 forget. As a rule the directions for planting seeds 

 are on each package, but here is a good rule to fol- 

 low if you buy your seeds in New York City, the 

 directions on the package are for that section of the 

 country. If you live in the South, you count how 

 many miles south you are and allow ten days for 

 each 100 miles. We will say you live 300 miles 

 south of New York (remembering, not 300 miles 

 away, but 300 miles south), then you would allow 

 three times ten, which would be 30 days or one 

 month, so if the directions say, "Sow the seed out of 

 doors in May," you would sow them one month 

 earlier, or in April. If you bought seed in the south 

 and lived far north, you would do the opposite, plant 

 later than the directions say. 



This rule holds good except in sections of our 

 country where planting continues through the 

 whole year and along the Pacific Coast where the 

 climate is affected by the Japan Stream. Nature, 



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