Practical answers to every-day 
questions about home gardening 


i i a coe catalog ye can keep on using long after you've bought Working your soil full time 
an 
ree P Ath r seed! Even if you have ample room, it will 
1S jammed with down-to-earth facts every gardener needs to know. 8Y to consider intercropping. catch 
Even old-timers will find help here. You'll find most of these facts cropping and succession cropping: In 
rouped und j se 9 9 9 ” intercroppine, 
; s eras esos HaaW her Wiese Why? Read them between slower, growing plants that 
carefully, keep them handy—and use them all through the year. occupy the land all season. For in- 
Locati ‘ 1 - . stance, plant early lettuce between the 
table pate EA toes reed 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 tomatoes need UD oe 
many things about ¢hat 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 srancemakcroD jOlnen en beans to be 
on the lee side so that wind will not followed by late furnips. These tricks 
ue grift from it into those which should US space efficiently and also reduce 
Is your soil right? not be dusted. {he number of rows we have to plant. 
Too, in {his way, We can proadcast 
fertilizer before plowing or digging 
rather than applying it along the row 
Heavy clay should be broken up by This puts the following vegetables on 
using compost, manure, peat moss oF the side away from the wind—bush 













other vegetable matter. Liming also and pole beans, limas, beets (unless : 
helps. Stuff sandy soils with all the you want to eat the thinnings a5 when the plants are partially [SORRY 
manure or other organic matter you greens), carrots, sweet corn, eggplant, 
can spare. Fertilizers, however, should okra, onions, parsnips, peas, peppers, Don’t plant in wet ground. No soil is 
be relied upon to feed crops for a radishes, tomatoes and turnips (again, right for gardening that can’t pass 
good harvest (see pase 34). only if you don’t eat the greens) - the “mud pie’ test. To make a 
Facing the wind should be the vege- mud pie test, pick up a handful of 
The high cost of guessing tables not to be dusted, including soil and squeeze it slightly. If # 
: Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, Chinese balls or packs, it is 00 wet to work. 
Substitute headwork for arm and back- cabbage, collards, cucumber, endive, Don’t apply lime Waless itvis really 
aches by making @ 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 petter distribu- 
will 



grow goo 
beets do poorly and grow irregu- 
larly, you cam add about 50 lbs. 




plant by guess usually you plant too tion of sunshine if they run north and of hydrated lime or 100 lbs. of 
much. You must take care _of the south. If this arrangement isn't neces- ground limestone to each 1,000 
extra planting until harvest time be- sary, better put corn and other tall square feet of garden. If you have 
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 ijn one or two long rows, but 
See Page 18. jn several short rows (see page 14). 
pH _ tester, most flowers and. 
vegetables will do qwell in a soil 
between 6.0 and 7.0. 




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