it's Fun to Plan 
Your Garden 
PLAN YOUR GARDEN 
A small garden well tilled, like a small farm, is 
worth more than a large garden grown up to weeds! 
Every good farmer knows how easy and much more 
profitable it is to grow a crop on paper while sitting 
by the stove in January; than to produce it on the 
farm in the Summer. 
The old saying “Don’t bite off more than you can 
chew” must have been especially aimed at the back 
yard gardener. How much easier it is to plant a gar¬ 
den than to keep it clean! 
In many gardens the planning, or lack of planning, 
makes it twice as hard to control weeds—rows of 
some vegetables are planted too far apart and too 
much is planted of some things and too little of others. 
Space can be conserved by interplanting and replant¬ 
ing as crops are harvested 
Small vegetables such as radishes, lettuce, beets, 
onions and carrots can be sown in rows 12" to 15" 
apart; beans 18" to 24"; and corn 32" to 36". Early 
cabbage can be set between the tomato plants. Small 
quick growing vegetables, such as lettuce, radishes, 
onion sets and spinach, grow well between the corn 
rows. If your garden is too small to profitably grow 
corn, space can be conserved by succession of crops 
grown by replanting such vegetables as lettuce, 
radishes, beets and snap beans after early crops of 
spinach, radishes and lettuce are harvested. 
Before planting or even ordering the seeds for your 
vegetable garden it is wise to draw a scale map of 
your plot. Draw in the rows and measure off the 
length of row of each vegetable. If your rows run 
East and West, it is best to put your corn and other 
tall growing vegetables on the north side where they 
will not shade the lower growing vegetables. 
Zelda, Louise and Mr. Merton, County 4H Club Agent. 
WHAT TO PLANT IN YOUR GARDEN 
AND WHY 
Tendergreen Bean: Stringless and meaty. 
Scotia Bean: Follows Tendergreen—wonderful flavor. 
Crosby Beet: Early and tender. 
Nantes Carrot: Fine grained, less fibre. 
Seneca “60” Sweet Corn: Earliest of all sweet corns. 
Seneca Golden Sweet Corn: Good quality—second 
early. 
Golden Cross Sweet Corn: Large ear, tender, sweet. 
A. & C. Cucumber: Long, slim, dark color, few seeds. 
Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce: Quick grower, 
crisp, tender. 
Delicious Muskmelon: Prolific, early, sweet. 
Seneca Bender Muskmelon: Medium size, firm 
sweet flesh. 
Ebenezer Onion Sets: For either green or dry onions 
—do not go to seed. 
Little Marvel Peas: Short vine, prolific, early, tender, 
sweet. 
Morse’s Market Peas: Short vine, large pods, sweet, 
mid-season. 
Alderman Peas: Large, late, sweet, tender. 
Windsor “A” Pepper: Heavy yields, large, thick 
flesh, sweet. 
Pritchard Tomato: Wilt resistant, medium size, solid 
fleshed, colors well up to stem. 
Long Standing Spinach: Holds in eating condition 
longer. 
Fordhook Swiss Chard: Dark green color. More 
vitamins. 
Comet and Icicle Radish Mixed: Pull Comet; leaves 
room for Icicle. 
Connecticut Straightneck Summer Squash: Pro¬ 
lific, early. 
Table Queen Squash: Can be baked early in fall. 
Buttercup Squash: Keeps well, family size, cooks dry. 
Honey Cream Watermelon: Very early, crisp, sweet. 
Enough of each of the above for a good size family 
garden, $2.50 Prepaid—(a $2.85 value). 
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“We are sending you our 1938 garden seed order. Last year we 
won the honor of receiving the 4H garden championship award. 
We also received many ribbons on the vegetables that we showed 
both at Genesee County and New York State Fair. We feel that 
part of our success is due to the seeds we used. Most of our seeds 
were purchased from you. Our garden last year was a demonstra¬ 
tion garden and it will be again this year. One of the most success¬ 
ful plots was our sweet corn. We planted Seneca 60, Seneca 
Golden and Golden Cross on May 8. We picked our first corn 
July 23 when we sold it for 35 cents a dozen. We had corn con¬ 
tinually from then thru the second week in September. We thought 
you might be interested in these facts. 
April 12th, 1938 Zelda E. and Louise E. Mullen, 
Genesee County 4H Members, 
Stafford, N. Y. 
For Prepaid I ransportation and Terms of Sale see page 16. 
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