HOW TO START A SCHOOL GARDEN. 



Write to the Extension Division, Chico State Normal School, Chico, for 

 enrollment blanks. As soon as these are filled out and returned, vegetable 

 and flower seeds will be mailed to you free. However, if you wish to pur- 

 chase your own seeds we urge you to do this at once; at least, enroll with us 

 in order that the boys and girls will receive the "Junior Agriculturist" 

 regularly, free. 



Selection of plat. A plat 40 by 100 feet for 30 to 40 children does very 

 well. If your school is in a city get permission to garden a vacant lot. 



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Figure 1. 



The plan. With the children develop a working plan on the board. The 

 following points must be considered. 



1. Number of children and size of individual plats. 



2. Ease of access to each garden. 



3. Paths 1 to 2 feet wide. 



4. Three types of gardens — individual, community, and experimental. 



5. Arrangement of vegetables and flowers for beauty and practicability. 

 Certain colors clash. Corn and carrots side by side is not a practical 



arrangement. Corn, tomatoes, potatoes and the like should be grown in 

 mass by themselves. 



6. Attractiveness of the garden as a whole. 



Figure II is suggestive. Individual plats 3 by 4 feet for primary children 

 and 3 by 6 feet or larger for older boys and girls in groups of four make an 

 advisable arrangement. 



In the experimental plats, try out the different methods of irrigating, 

 sprinkling, flooding, trenching. Determine the value of fertilization. Grow 

 new types of plants, peanuts, sugar beets, cotton, and so on. Attempt to 

 solve some plant growing problem. 



As a project in drawing or arithmetic have the children map the plan to 

 scale. Prepare a plan yourself and tack it on the school wall. 



