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INSTRUCTIONS FOR 
BETTER GARDENING 
/ \ PRODUCTIVE GARDEN if it is well planned, will yield 
a large variety of fresh vegetables for your table. ; 
Work out a complete plan of operation before you buy any 
seed or do any outside work. Be sure the vegetable garden 
will be in full sun more than half of the day. 
Short beds are an advantage. They take less time to care 
for properly, therefore making a greater showing of accom- 
plishment. 
Outhne the entire garden, including the paths and beds, 
with stout string fastened to stakes to make planting easier. 
Then place stakes for the first row and stretch a line between 
them. Repeat this planting each row so it will be 
straight and all rows will be the correct distance apart. 
before 
Be sure your garden plot has good drainage. Standing water 
will ruin plants. There should be some protection against 
strong winds. 
Hssential tools you will need are spade (or fork), hoe. rake, 
and a small hand duster or sprayer. 
A “spring gardener’”’ Jets his work.go with neglect as soon 
as the weather is warm. So make a good start and keep going 
all season by doing a little bit each day. That is the advantage 
of the short row—it is never discouraging. 
We have the best seeds you can obtain. They are selected 
for high germination and purity through constant testing and 
selection. 
LOCATION—PREPARING THE SOIL 
Exposure for the vegetable garden should be sunny. No 
common vegetable will grow under trees, or in the shade of 
buildings—only a few herbs will thrive under such conditions. 
The garden should be as open and as sunny as possible. 
Sometimes buildings on adjacent lots may shade the garden 
a little, but if the sun reaches the soil at least half of the day, 
you will be able to grow most any vegetable you desire. 
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Celery wrapped blanched or dust with shomiacl poeta 
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Aphids suck plat Diseases are not easy tocantrol 
idices. Contro!  Rusts,wilts, mosaic (mottled leaves) 
by contact spray Remave affected partsand ; 
such asNictne BURN! Rusts may be control- 
sulfate, led sometimes by Bordeaux 

sprays or dusts. 

Plan the vegetable rows to run from north to south. This 
direction gives the most benefit from the sun. Another way is 
to plant the taller kinds behind so that they never shade the 
small ones. 
Good soil is as essential as sunlight to growing plants. 
Most soils will grow vegetables, or can be made suitable by 
thorough, deep spading and liberal applications of manure, 
peat or other humus material at that time. Dig as deep as the 
spading fork or spade will go, forcing it straight down before 
lifting and turning the soil over, breaking up all clods. Grass 
may be turned under to rot and make humus, but the roots of 
perennial weeds, like dandelions and thistles, should be re- 
moved. Throw out all large stones, building refuse and other 
material detrimental to growing plants. 
SOIL LEVEL 









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Plant carrots, tur- lettuce and bunch- Tomatoes are best on a stout Train pole beans, Get an extra crop Radish 
nips, beets, onions, ing onions in beds trellis. Tie with strips of soft tall ipeassmlimas. lor off quia) aakacite adishes, 
lettuce spinach and which are later cloth. Pinch or prune some cucumbers on heavy crouse hyaiplentigg onions, or 
celery in double planted to other of side branches but not the Res etd ene tie uith Glouteiade Jettuce be- 
rows one foot apart erops requiring flower clusters which grow tween poles and i tween peppers 
at the opposite side of stem. 



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DEPTH OF PLANTING CHART 
For the Home Vegetable Garden 
1 Endive 9 Tomato 18 Cucumber 
2 Lettuce 10 Turnip 19 Okra 
3 Mustard 11 Beet 20 Pumpkin 
4 Carrot 12 Radish 21 Squash 
5 Eggplant 13 Spinach 22 Watermelon 
6 Onion 14 Swiss Chard 23 Beans 
7 Parsley 15 Cabbage 24 Corn 
8 Pepper 16 Cauliflower 25 Peas 
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