



This is a seed catalog you ¢ 
and planted your seed! 
table garden may be fixed by the land 
you have. You can, however, improve 
many things about that land if you 
have two basic requiremen 
least 6 hours of sunshine 
Is your soil right? 
Heavy clay should be broken up by 
using compost, manure, peat moss or 
other vegetable matter. Li 
helps. Stuff sandy soils wi 
manure or other organic m 
can spare. Fertilizers, however, should 
good harvest (see page 34). 
The high cost of guessing 
Substitute headwork for arm and back- 
aches by making a simple plan on _ kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, muskmelon, 
parsley, pumpkin, rhubarb, spinach, 
squash, Swiss chard and watermelon. 
In general, rows get better distribu- 
tion of sunshine if they run north and 
south. If this arrangement isn’t neces=- 
sary, better put corn and other tall 
crops to the north of the shorter 
crops. Sweet corn should not 
planted in one or two long rows; 
in several short rows (see page 
paper. This saves you seed— 
materials — and labor —because you 
plant only what you need. When you 
plant by guess usually you plant too 
much. You must take care of the 
extra planting until harvest time be- 
fore you see it won’t be needed. If 
you underestimate your needs, then 
you don’t have the food yo 
See Page 18. 

BEANS, Fordhook Bush Lima 
BEANS, Plentiful 
an keep on using lon 
ming also 
th all the you want to eat the thinnings aS 
greens), carrots, sweet corn, eggplant, 
okra, onions, parsnips, peas, peppers, 
be relied upon to feed crops for 4 radishes, tomatoes and turnips (again, 
only if you don’t eat the greens)- 
Facing the wind should be the vege- 
cluding 
Chinese 
dive, 
atter you 
and other 
u need. 
earth facts every gardener needs to know. 
Even old-timers will find help here. Youll find most of these facts 
grouped under the heading “How? When? Where? Why?” Read them 
| 
carefully, keep them handy—and use them all through the year. 
Location, soil and layout of the vese- 
from 
on the lee side so that wind will not 
drift from it into those which should 
tables not to be dusted, in 
Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, 




BROCCOLI, Italian Green Sprouting 
g after you've bought 
at layout. We can now divide vegetables 
daily and 
(2) reasonably good soil, free 
tree roots, subsoil and rubbish fill. 
This puts the following vegetables on 
the side away from the wind—bush 
and pole beans, limas, beets (unless 
cabbage, collards, cucumber, en 
be 
put 
14). 
CORN, Golden Cross Bantam (Top) 
: Jona (Center) 
towell’s Evergreen (Bottom) 

Practical answers 0 every-day 
questions about home gardening 
Working your soil full time 
Even if you have ample room, it will 
cropping and succession cropping. 
pay to consider intercropping, catch 
In 
intercropping: short season crops gO 
between slower, growing plants that 
occupy the Jand all season. For in- 
stance, plant early lettuce between the 
tomato plants, and harvest it before 
the tomatoes need all the room. 
goes in. In succession cropping 
with D.D.T. and the other to be left main crop comes first, as for 
stance a crop of snap beans to 
In catch cropping we plant an early 
crop on Jand before the main crop 
the 
be 
followed by late turnips. These tricks 
use space efficiently and also reduce 
the number of rows we have to plant. 





23 

the “mud pie 







balls or packs, itis too wet to work. 








grow good beets is all right. 















between 6.0 and 7.0. 


BEANS, Tendergreen 
CUCUMBERS, Ma: 
i ; rketer 
Straight Eight cae iad 
Too, in this way, we can broadcast 
fertilizer before plowing or digging 
rather than applying it along the row 
when the plants are partially grown. 

Don’t plant in wet ground. No soil is 
right for gardening that can’t pass 
test. To make a 
mud pie test, pick up & handful of 
soil and squeeze it slightly. If it 
Don’t apply lime unless it is really 
needed. Usually @ soil that will 
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 
pH _ tester, most flowers and 
wegetables qwill do well in a soil 

7 

