

BEET. EARLY WONDER 
The best table and canning beet we offer. 
The slightly flattened dark red beets have small 
tap roots and excellent flavor. Young tops may 
be used as greens. 
All of our planting instructions 
are for the Salt River Valley and 
similar climates. See page 37 for 
planting dates if you live at higher 
altitudes in Arizona. 
The sketch below shows a few 
helpful hints on seed planting. 
First of all in importance is a care- 
fully prepared seed bed—deeply 
dug, finely broken up and raked 
smooth to receive the seed. Enrich 
the soil with peat, manure or other 
humus material at the time of 
spading. 
If your soil has a tendency to 
crust over or “bake” after water- 
ing, we suggest applying a mulch 
of finely pulverized manure, peat 
or grass clippings. This will keep 
the water content of the soil more 
uniform and assist germination. 
the surplus. 
Making a Victory garden is not as complicated as it may seem. With a 
good plan to work from, it is possible on a small area to produce an 
amazing quantity of vegetables and flowers. Very much depends on the 
area of ground available but the average city backyard, which is prob- 
ably the most restricted in size, will produce many green vegetables, a 
number of root vegetables, and if vines are trained on the fences—all the 
Beet, Early 
W onder 
cucumbers and beans you will need. Pumpkins and squash can still be 


grown among the corn to save space. 
Flowers can be planted to be seen from the house, in just the right 

amount for color and accent to make the garden cheerful. Select old 
favorites and a few novelties for pleasant variety. In this way your 
Victory garden will serve a real need. You will be well repaid in veg- 
etables to eat and flowers for the house. 
ONION. SWEET SPANISH 
A popular sweet onion for home and market gardens. 
For the beds, make furrows from 2 to 3 feet apart. Run water from a hose or ditch, all the way through the beds. This 
will enable the gardener to determine high and low spots according to the water level, and accomplish a complete leveling. 

PLANTING TIPS FOR THE HOME 
Properly prepared soil is 

















VEGETABLE GARDEN 
1. Spading Soil. 
2. Raking Level. 
3. Making Seed Bed. 
4. Sowing Seed. 
Take a pinch 
of seed be- 
tween thumb 
and fingers. 
Rubbing thumb 
across fingers 
Trench made with releases Alors 
hoe for watering 





Plant a Victory Vegetable Garden — Help Win the War! 
The ever dwindling supply of farm labor and increased freight loads of our railroads and other factors, with which we are 
all familiar, is changing the buying habits of everyone. Those of us who are fortunate to be garden minded can grow veg- 
etables act home equal in quality to those available before the war and better than the average available today. We need not 
replant our gardens unless by so doing we achieve a better garden than we had before. The use of flowers with vegetables as 
we suggest here will give great satisfaction. You will have flowers, as before, and at the same time will be relieving the growers 
of much responsibility in meeting their ever increasing demands for produce. Grow all the vegetables you can and preserve 
Plan for all year growing. What you plant this fall must not interfere with 
spring planting for summer crops. Short season crops will be used quickly 
and should be replanted as long as the season permits. In this way one row 
will produce the equivalent of several, but fertilizing is necessary to replace 

the nutrient extracted by the previous crop. 
This planting guide is filled with essential information gained from years 
of experience in this climate. We offer these suggestions so your garden will 
give better crops of flowers and vegetables. But, all these may not secure 
success if common sense in the location of the garden, its planting, prepara- 
tion of soil and care of the plants is not followed. Even more important is the 
use of good seed. Liefgreen’s reputation has been built on supplying the 
finest seed of the best varieties for Arizona growing conditions. You can 
depend on seeds from us. 
Pole Beans 
Flowering Vines 
v Asparagus 
Tomatoes 
7>Low Vegetables - 
Sy Cabbage or Cauliflower 
“eo? —>—— Peas or Bush Beans 
a 



Summer Squash 
Strawberries 
aA 
: PS Tall Annuals 
Lays 
// PLAN THE VICTORY GARDEN 
for 
FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES 

A good working plan saves time and effort. This plan gives ample space for flowers 
and vegetables. Crops can be rotated without re-making the garden. 







CANTALOUPE, HALE’S BEST NO. 45 
An early ripening, mildew resistant melon for 
the home and market gardener. Deep salmon 
thick flesh of finest flavor. Melons are oval, 
heavily netted and faintly striped. 
SOIL LEVEL 

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DEPTH OF PLANTING CHART 
For the Home Vegetable Garden 

RADISH, EARLY SCARLET TURNIP 
Radishes are about the easiest vegetable to 
grow. Sow any time of the year except the hottest 
months and have a continuous supply of fresh, 
crisp radishes for the table. 
The home gardener grows his 
plants under widely different condi- 
tions from those experienced by the 
commercial market gardener. Veg- 
etable gardening here is little more 
than a variation of flower gardening. 
Seeds can be given better care in 
watering, weeding and later in cul- 
tivation and picking the crop is a 
small scale operation. 
The sketch below shows the proper 
depth of planting we recommend for 
vegetable gardeners to cover their 
seed. It is best not to follow the depths 
recommended for field grown crops, 
which would be too deep for the 
home garden. 
Many vegetable seeds are scarce 
and although there is enough to go 
around we should not waste seed. 
Sow thinly and evenly, paying atten- 
tion to the depth of covering recom- 
mended. 

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Method of making seed bed. Cover lightly to the proper depth. 
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: us ettuce urnip ra 
full depth of spading for Soviseed Veron Uy yj 3 Mustard 11 Beet 20 Pumpkin 
no 4 Carrot 12 Radish 21 Squash 
5 Eggplant 13 Spinach 22 Watermelon 
$ Colon a awie Chard Z Beans 
oe ee : : arsley abbage 4 Corn 
=~ == Sow seed thinly to avoid waste. 8 Pepper 16 Cauliflower 25 Peas 
- 17 Melons 

TOMATOES. FOR TABLE AND CANNING 



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