
Practical answers fo every-day 
questions about home gardening 
W? WHEN? WHERE? WHY 
ee : a or catalog you can keep on using long after you’ve bought Working your soil full time 
an 
It i P sre Mieke r seed! Even if you have ample room, it will 
| t is jammed with down-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 prope and Rae cropping: - 
grouped under the heading “How? When? Where? Why?” Read them intereropping, short season, Ste iS 
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carefully, keep them handy—and use them all through the year. between slower, BOM aga 
occupy the Jand all season. For in- 
Location, soil and layout of the vege- stance, plant early lettuce between the 
tibia garden may be fixed by ean New ideas on garden layout tomato plants, and harvest it before 
you have. You can, however, improve D-D.T. for pest control promises fom ce tomatoes need alt eee 
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 and _ into two groups — one to be dusted goes 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 In- 
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 
‘ drift from it into those hich snould 0. 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 b This puts the following vegetables on Too, in thismWwaye No ncee broadcast 
using compost, manure, peat ae as the side away from the wind—bush fertilizer before plowing <. digging 
other vegetable matter. Liming also and pole beans, limas, beets (unless rather than applying it along the.row 
helps. Stuff sandy soils with all the YOU want to eat the thinnings as when the plants are partially grown 
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, 




Don’t plant in wet ground. No soil is 
right for gardening that can’t pass 
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good harvest (see pase 34). only if you don’t eat the greens). the “mud pie” test. To make @ 
Facing the wind should be the vege- med ee lees Cea on 
‘ . tables not t b dusted, includi soil and § eze t : 
The high cost of guessing Brussels eprouls! e dusted. "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 a soil that will 
grow good beets is all right. 
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, kohlrabi, 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 
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