Items From The Schoolroom 

 Garden Notes 



A PRIZE WINNER. 



During the summer I belonged to a canning club. I had to 

 have my own garden of a tenth of an acre. I worked it myself 

 and enjoyed }t very much. I grew string beans, lima beans, 

 peas, tom.atoes, onions, peppers, beets, peanuts and cabbage. 

 When the things were ready for use I canned them. I received 

 the first prize at the exhibition in the fall. The prize was a trip 

 to the University of Maryland at College Park. I had a grand 

 tim.e with a hundred others. 



Katherine Swann. 



MY garden 

 (This garden was visited by the associate editor of the Review 

 and was as fine as Clyde says it was. It covered one-tenth of 

 an acre in a com.m.unity garden and without question was the best.) 



My garden was on the Anacostia flats. In it I grew some very 

 fine and delicious vegetables. I grew some very fine radishes, 

 beets, carrots, cucumbers. Sweet and Irish potatoes, a great lot of 

 wax beans and string beans. I had forty-five poles of lima beans 

 that gave enough to eat and can. I had tobacco and peanuts and 

 very good luck with my two hundred tomato plants. I grew some 

 very fine egg plants, green peppers, fine com, spring onions and a 

 nice bed of very fine parsley. I also had kale, nice spinach and 

 a few turnips. I had a nice garden in 1921 and hope to have a 

 better in 1922. 



Clyde Pezold, Van Buren School 



LIME THE SOIL 



spring will soon be here and we shall have to get our gardens 

 ready. Vegetables will not grow in sour soil. There is a way you 

 can tell whether your soil is sour or sweet. Buy some blue litmus 

 paper in a drug store. Put some of your soil in a pan. Put a 

 piece of litmus in it and leave it for a time. If the litmus paper 

 is still blue when you take it out your soil is sweet but if the paper 



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