
Practical answers fo every-day 
questions about home gardening 


This is a seed catalog you can keep on using long after you've bought Working your soil full time 
and planted your seed! it wi 
{ ee Aad Even if you have ample room, it will 
is jamme: wit own-to-earth facts every gardener needs to know. pay to consider intercropping, catch 
Even old-timers will find help here. You'll find most of these facts cropping and succession cropping. In 
grouped under the heading “How? When? Where? Why?” Read them intereropping, short seakot crops 50 
carefully, keep them handy—and use them all through inetrear between slower, growing plants that 
occupy the Jand all season. For in- 
Location, soil and layout of the vege- stance, plant early lettuce between the 
table garden may be fixed by the land New ideas on garden layout tomato plants, and harvest it before 
you have. You can, however, improve D.D.T. for pest control promises to the tomatoes need all the room. 
many things about that land if you change the whole scheme of garden In catch cropping we plant an early 
have two basic requirements: (1) at layout. We can now divide vegetables crop on land before the main crop 
least 6 hours of sunshine daily dy tO wO groups — one to bey dusted=) -E°S= in. In succession cropping the 
(2) reasonably good soil, free from with D.D.T. and the other to be left main crop comes first, as for im- 
tree roots, subsoil and rubbish fill. undusted. The D.D.T. plot should be stance a crop of snap beans to be 
on the lee side so that wind will not followed by late turnips: These tricks 
ie drift from it into those which should |” .US= space efficiently and also reduce 
Is your soil right? not be dusted. the number of rows we have to plant. 
Heavy clay should be broken up by This puts the following vegetables on Too, in this way: ee Sta broadcast 
using compost, manure, peat moss or the side away from the wind—bush fertilizer before plowing or digging 
other vegetable matter. Liming also and pole beans, limas, beets (unless rather than applying i along the TOW 
helps. Stuff sandy soils with, all the YOU want to eat the thinnings as when the plants are partially” StOWM: 
manure or other organic matter you greens), carrots, sweet corn, eggplant, 
can spare. Fertilizers, however, should okra, onions, parsnips, peas, peppers, 
be relied upon to feed crops for a radishes, tomatoes and turnips (again, 


in wet ground. No soil is 
ardening that can’t pass 
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good harvest (see page 34). only if you don’t eat the greens)- the “mud pre test. To make a 
Facing the wind should be the vege- mud be Cees Rn Ea ye 
‘ . tables not to be dusted, including sou an eze % : 
é The high cost of guessing Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, Chinese balls or packs, itis too wet to work. 
Substitute headwork for arm and back- cabbage, collards, cucumber, endive, 
Don’t apply lime unless it is really 
needed. Usually @ soil that will 
grow good beets is all right. If 
beets do poorly and grow irregu- 
larly, you can add about 50 lbs. 
of hydrated lime or 100 lbs. of 
ground limestone to each 1,000 
square feet of garden. If you have 
a pH _ tester, most flowers and 
vegetables will do well in a soil 
between 6.0 and 7.0. 
aches by making 4 simple plan on kale, kohirabi, lettuce, muskmelon, 
paper. This saves you seed—and other parsley, pumpkin, rhubarb, spinach, 
materials —and labor—because you squash, Swiss chard and watermelon. 
plant only what you need. When you In general, rows get better distribu- 
plant by guess usually you plant too tion of sunshine if they run north and 
much. You must take care of the south. If this arrangement isn’t neces- 
extra planting until harvest time be- sary, better put corn and other tall 
fore you see it won’t be needed. If crops to the north of the shorter 
you underestimate your needs, then crops. Sweet corn should not be 
you don’t have the food you need. planted in one or two long rows, but 
See Page 18. in several short rows (see page 14). 












CORN, Golden eres Banter (Top) 
o Jona (Center) 
owell’s Evergreen (Bottom) 


BEANS, Plenti at | er (Lop 
7 f BROCCOLI, Italian Green Sprouting CUCUMBERS, M (Top) 7 
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Straight Eight (Bottom) 
