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Practical answers to every-day 

questions about home gardening 

Make the most of your space something else, is the round-pointed 
long handled shovel. If there is any 
slope to your garden, start at the 
lower end, as the natural tendency 
is for soil to work down grade. Start 
by digging a trench the width and 
depth of a spade. Wheel soil from 
this trench to the far end where you 
plan to finish. As you dig, throw the 
earth from the succeeding rows into 
the trench made by the previous 
spade cut. The last trench is filled 
with the earth wheeled from the first. 
Spadi loa If you must plow, be sure the soil 
pading vs. plowing is right. Many good plots have been : : ; 
Before digging or plowing, spread 215 ruined by plowmen who insist on guide in opening a furrow. For smaller 
to 3 Ibs. of good mixed fertilizer over working when the soil was too wet. seeds, press the end of the hoe handle 
every 100 square feet of soil. Divide Before you decide on machine work, into the soil along the line to form a 
into two lots, broadcasting one with consider this: by working only an 14" deep furrow. Finer seeds can be 
the wind and the other across the hour a day for five days, a man of planted in this furrow, covered with 
,w 
wind. Or use a fertilizer spreader if average strength can dig a good-sized about 14” of soil. In heavy clay it 
Study the chart on page 18. This 
will tell you how far apart rows 
should be, how long each crop 
takes to mature, and how much 
space you qwill need to provide the 
vegetables your family likes. After 
you have taken into consideration 
the crops you want to grow, make 
a rough sketch showing the loca- 
tion of each crop, with catch crops, 
intercrops, succession Crops indi- 
cated. 
If your space is limited, better omit 
crops like peas, corn and potatoes 
that need lots of room. And go slow 
on crops that you can buy in equal 
quality on the market, like potatoes, 
late cabbage and winter squash. In- 
stead, favor the delicately flavored 
vegetables like leaf lettuce, early 
cabbage, green beans and summer 
squash that can never be shipped 
without some loss of quality. 










you have one, it insures uniform dis- garden and leave the soil in better will pay to use a special covering 
tribution. condition than the ordinary factor of either pure sand or half 
Before you dig; make the mud pie job, worked with farm equipment sand and half peat moss. Sifted com~ 
test: pick up 2 handful of soil and usually too heavy for garden use. post can be substituted for the peat. 
pat it lightly into a mud pie or cake. Furrows two to three inches deep for 
If it can be crumbled into loose soil Raking can be overdone peas ore pea Arle not be nes - 
i jie i i once. An inch of covering a e mos 
easily, the soil is all right (9 Sl If ost inexperienced, gardrte spend js enough. Fill the penchiwith toil 
too wet, don’t dig. : 
Set don a. ug. me rent ylat's zone, Coa should 
tool, unless you are accustomed tO }yoken up and trash and stones re- 
moved within reasonable limits. But A hill is a hole 
to crush every last lump into dust Much dam -< done by followi 
takes entirely too much time for the nee ei acy ri lo on ve 2 ee 
part-time gardener. If worked at the ae Ne oe Lae f nf ee: 
right “mud-pie”’ point, most lumps except where eavy rainfall may 
: ; : : waterlog the soil, cucumbers, squash, ' 
eae ea tenes the cultivation WE melons and pumpkins should be 
planted in shallow depressions, Se€V~- 
eral seeds spaced 2” apart. 
When you lay out the rows— Vine crops appreciate all the well- 
A cord stretched from a stake at rotted manure or compost you can dig 
either end of the row will serve as a into the soil. 
as the plants grow- 



Include perennial vegetables when 
possible. Rhubarb, Asparagus; 
Horse Radish and Perennial Onions 
can be grown on one side of the 
garden where they wont inter- 
fere with plowing or cultivating. 
‘Small fruits should be included 
whenever space will permit, since 
the quality of home-grown berries 
is far better than any you can buy. 














