
PLANNING YOUR VICTORY GARDEN 
Every Victory garden, large or small, should be 
planned on paper before it is planted. On the 
following pages we will show you how easy 
it is to make up your plan, which then enables 
you to estimate the amount of seed you will 
need and the size of crop it should produce. 
Even a small garden plot, if properly planned, 
amply fertilized and used to keep something 
growing all thru the season, will produce a 
First Rules 
(1) Give some consideration to your family’s 
positive likes and dislikes. You want theit 
enthusiastic cooperation. Also, there is no 
use growing any vegetables which you know 
won't be eaten. 
(2) Unless you are an experienced gardener, 
better decide right now to forget about 
trying to grow perennials such as asparagus 
and rhubarb. After all, the easy-to-grow 
annuals represent most of the vegetables. 
If you do insist on trying some perennial 
crop, place it at one side of your plot 
where it can stay undisturbed for years. 
(3) Plan for a steady succession of crops. This 
is a vitally important reason for a paper 
plan as you can set up a schedule that 
insures a steady supply of fresh vegetables 
to your table all season and, where your 
space is limited, get two, three and pos- 
sibly four quick-growing crops from a single 
row. This is accomplished in several ways: 
(a) By making successive plantings every 
two weeks, of beans, peas, radishes, 
beets, carrots, lettuce, spinach and 
sweet corn until you have several crops 
coming on. You can make two plant- 
ings of tomatoes and cabbage or, if 
space is plentiful, you can get the same 
result by planting, at one time, vari- 
eties of the same vegetable which ma- 
ture at different times. 
(b) By raising a crop of early vegetables 
surprising lot of fresh vegetables for the table. 
On Pages 4-5 we show a plan for a highly 
productive garden only 1514 feet square. A 
plot 20x50 feet (as shown on Pages 6-7) can 
supply a family of four all season with some 
left for canning. A space 30x90 (as shown on 
Pages 8-9) will produce enough for a large 
family with a minimum of successive planting 
and also allow a 3-year rotation of crops. 
for Planning 
and then planting a later crop of dif- 
ferent vegetables in the same plot. 
(c) By “companion cropping” which means 
planting two crops at the same time in 
the same row, of which one will ma- 
ture before the other. 
All this is much simpler than it may sound 
at first. On Pages 4 to 10 you will find 
complete garden plans laid’ out for good 
successions of crops. On Page 11 you will 
find a simple table showing you how many 
days, after planting, various vegetables will 
mature, how much seed you need to produce 
a given average yield, how far apart and. 
how deep to plant, and how early you can 
plant. In addition, most seed catalogs 
give you this information for your partic- 
ular locality. 
(4) Plan for vitamins and vitality. Vegetables 
are absolutely essential to a balanced diet. 
Their daily serving is a pleasant economi- 
cal way to insure a higher degree of family 
health. When produced in your own gar- 
den, they provide minerals, vitamins and 
other essential food values at the minimum 
of low cost. On Page 16 you will find a 
table showing the vitamin content of the 
various common vegetables, meats, cereals 
and fruits along with the daily vitamin 
requirements of adults and children of all 
ages. This is important information for 
every family, particularly when planning a 
Victory Garden. 
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