Practical answers to every-day 
questions about home gardening 

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Tt is jammed with down-to-earth facts every gardener needs to know. Pa to consider intercropping, catch 
Even old-timers will fnd help here. You'll find most of these facts cropping and succession cropping. In 
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grouped under the heading “How: When? Where: Why?” Read them —_petween eer, growing plants that 
carefully, keep them handy—and use them all through the year. occupy the land all season. For in- 
: : 4 stance, plant early lettuce between the 
Rar ee Boo case ee oieed 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 Nome ars SOS 
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) aie edayoutn WS, can now divide vegetables crop on land before the mam crop 
Jeast 6 hours of sunshine daily and jnto two groups — one to be dusted goes in. In succession cropping the 
main crop comes first, as for in- 
1 (2) reasonably good soil, free from with D.D.T.- and the other to be left 
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 which should use space efficiently and also reduce 
the number of rows we have to plant. 
Is your soil right? not be dusted. 
. A Too, in this way, we can broadcast 
Heavy clay should be proken up by This puts me following vegetables on fertilizer before plowing oF digging 
using compost, manure, peat moss oF the side away from the wind—bush “ner than applyin it along the row 
other vegetable matter. Liming also and pole beans, limas, peets (unless aes me ae ks wave Sar Se 
helps. Stuff sandy soils with all the 7ou want to eat the thinnings as when the plan's pardallyé ; 
manure or other organic matter you greens), carrots, sweet corn, eggplant, 
can spare. Fertilizers, however, should okra, onions, parsnips, peas, peppers, 
radishes, tomatoes and turnips (again, 



Don’t plant in wet ground. No soil is 
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| good harvest (see page 34). only if you don’t eat the greens) - the “mud pie” test. To make a 
: Facing the wind should be the vege- i sa test, pick aha leech of 
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The high t of n tables not to be dusted, including : Dees 
| e high cost © guessing Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, Chinese balls 01 packs, it ws too wet to work. 
Substitute headwork for arm and back- cabbage, collards, cucumber, endive, Don't apply lime Enlesee ites veally: 
needed. Usually @ soil that will 
aches by making 4 simple plan on kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, muskmelon, 
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4 paper. This saves you seed—and other parsley, pumpkin, rhubarb, spinach, 
: materials —and Jabor — because you squash, Swiss chard and watermelon. 
4 plant only what you need. When you In general, rows get better distribu- 
1 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 jsn’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 a pH _ tester, most flowers and 
4 you underestimate your needs, then crops. Sweet corn should not be vegetables awill do well in @ soil 
| you don’t have the food you need. planted in one or two jong rows, but between 6.0 and 7.0. 
: See Page 18. in several short rows (see page 14). 
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