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the preliminary work up to now, you will be better 

 off than many a gardener, but you must, if anything, 

 increase your care and promptness from this time oil. 

 Don't let over-cautious conservatives worry you 

 by suggesting that it is "too early to plant this or 

 that." If you follow these directions you may, it 

 is true, lose some plants, perhaps a small crop, by 

 frost. But then, a few cents' worth of seed is not 

 so much to lose at this time, whereas there is a good 

 chance that the plants will stand, and you will be 

 the gainer by days, or even weeks. Most certainly 

 take some such risks. The game is very worth the 

 candle. 



MARCH 



Planting and Transplanting. March is a very 

 busy month for the progressive gardener. Seed 

 sown now sprouts, but, because of cool nights, the 

 top growth is slow. The roots, however, are 

 foraging and as soon as climatic conditions are right, 

 you have a big-rooted plant ready to push right 

 ahead. 



I am supposing that you have already started 

 some of the hardier plants in the hotbed, and 

 perhaps a few tomatoes, eggplant and peppers, 

 indoors. If you haven't done this start the cab- 

 bages, etc., at once. The tender seedlings must be 

 kept indoors until the middle of the month, but at 

 that time you can start some more in the hotbed. 



If the temperature goes too low for these soft, 

 sappy plants they soon turn yellow and it takes a 

 long time to get them back to normal condition. 



