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Some 
Reasons Why 
Vou Should Grow 
Your Own Vegetables 
Not many of us have land enough to pro¬ 
duce the family’s entire vegetable supply, but 
all of us can grow some portion of it. It is surpris¬ 
ing how real a contribution even a small garden will 
make to your annual food-bill. 
Vegefable-Growing Pays You Money 
You may have been told that vegetables are so cheap it does not pay to grow 
them, but this is not true; vegetable-growing is profitable, even on a basis of 
dollars and cents. If you give yourself, and other members of your family, 50 cents 
for each hour spent in the garden you wil! have remaining in your pocket, at the end of the 
season, a substantial part of the sum your budget allows for food. Half a dollar an hour is not a 
munificent sum, but there are few hobbies that will guarantee to pay you this, and a handsome 
bonus besides. 
^ cash saving is the 
_ _ _ ^ Keeps You Well least of the benefits that 
* ^ i’t' will be yours when you grow a part of your food 
“ * supply. The exercise is as healthful as golf, as inter¬ 
esting and cheaper withall. After a round of gardening, 
try a shower and a change of clothing, and see how you feel. 
Your Vegetables Have More products of your own garden 
Vitamins and Better Flavor ^re more health-giving because the 
fresher vegetables are, the more vitamins they contain; everyone 
knows that newly picked vegetables have far more flavor than those 
that are days old; corn, peas, and beans are among those that are so 
superior when fresh picked that they are entirely different. Most 
commercial crops are harvested before they are quite ready, to allow 
them to mature on the journey from the field to your table. Yours 
are ripening on the plant right up to the hour that you use them. 
idea of strangers handling your 
Food-Poisonmg food? Are the conditions under which it is grown 
sanitary? Do you fear infection therefrom? Are you nervous of 
contamination from impure water, infected soil or manure? You can 
control these in yo.ur own garden. Do you worry about your vege¬ 
tables and fruits having been sprayed with arsenic? Around the 
home you can use insecticides that are not poisonous. 
Commercial Varieties When you grow your own, you will enjoy 
Not Necessardy quality money cannot buy. From the 
the Best for You scores of varieties available, you can make 
your selection for superior flavor alone; the professional grower has 
to confine himself to kinds that resist the diseases which accompany 
mass production, that will ship satisfactorily, store well or have 
some other commercial advantage, which may have little relation to 
their palatability. To be sure of quality, grow your own. 
Growing Vegetables Is Easy — and Good Fun 
Cultural Instructions for each vegetable will be found in the follow¬ 
ing pages and printed on the seed packets; if these are followed, you 
will be successful. 
If your soil is either sandy or very tenaceous, spread Humus at 
the rate of 15 pounds per 10 square feet and then broadcast General 
Garden Fertilizer at the rate of to pound to each 10 square feet. 
If you decide that the Humus is not needed, do not omit the General 
Garden Fertilizer. Dig the land, turning each spadeful, then rake 
smooth and plant. Repeat the digging and fertilizing when your 
summer gardening is over, and, some time during winter, broadcast 
pound garden lime per 10 square feet. 
Sow seed or put your plants out in rows; these should be wide 
enough to allow you to walk between them. Remove seedlings where 
they crowd, so that your plants are the distance apart that is sug¬ 
gested in the cultural notes. Hoe between the plants every ten days, 
but before you hoe dust General Garden Fertilizer on the surface of 
the soil, so that your cultivation sends it under. 
Simple Sorts and Some Not-So-Simple 
Some vegetables are easier to grow than others; among those that are extremely simple are: 
Beans Corn Kohlrabi New Zealand Spinach Pepper 
Beet Cucumber Leek Onion 
Broccoli Eggplant Lettuce Parsley 
Cabbage Endive Muskmelon Parsnip 
Carrot Kale Mustard Peas 
Pumpkin 
Radish 
Rutabaga 
Salsify 
Scorzonera 
Spinach 
Swiss Chard 
Tomato 
Turnip 
Vegetables that need more care, and regarding which the instructions should be closely followed are: 
Artichoke Asparagus Cardoon Cauliflower Celery Chicory Mushrooms Sweet Potatoes 
Succession and Companion Cropping Save Space 
Arrange your plantings with a view to getting a continuous supply throughout the 
season, rather than a large amount at one time. Take advantage of ‘^early** and 
*‘late** varieties, where offered. Make sowings of the following short-season 
sorts every few weeks, for what is termed “succession cropping.** 
Bush Beans Carrot Cucumber Lettuce Radish Swiss Chard 
Cress Endive Mustard Spinach Turnip 
Place quick-growing plants, like lettuce, alternately with slower-growing 
plants, like cabbage, so that the speedier ones can mature before the slower 
plants need all the room, and so practice “companion cropping.*’ 
60 Vegetable Seeds 
No Garden Is Too Small for Vegetables—The quantity of food that a 
space 20x20 feet, or even 20x10 feet, will produce may surprise you. 
STUMPP & WALTER CO 
