Practical answers to every-day 
questions about home gardening 

ping, plant an early crop before the 
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Cut living costs! Grow your own food! main crop is planted. In succession 
cropping the main crop comes first 
Now, more than ever before, YOU NEED A GARDEN! (i.e.. snap beans to be followed by 
With sky-high food prices, a garden is a better investment than ever! ae Bee In this way you make 
Back in the days when food prices were reasonable, a nation-wide pe cey on erace, cub down the 
i dothat fo Hoe iol a } els } number of rows to tend, and make 
survey showed that, jor every dollar spent on home gardens, the etter use of water and fertilizers. 
average return in vegetables was more than ten dollars. Today, the 
In the smaller garden, concentrate on 
ratio is far higher. 
: f : ; f vegetables that lose quality most rap- 
Think of the prices you'll have to pay this year, if you buy fresh idly when shipped any distance—deli- 
vegetables in the markets! It’s not a very pleasant thought, is it? cately flavored green beans, summer 
But you can beat these high prices—by growing your own! And what’s squash, early cabbage and leaf lettuce. 
more, you'll have fun doing it. There’s no more pleasant and healthful Unless you have plenty of room, bet- 
occupation than gardening! ter leave late cabbage, dry onions, 
winter squash and potatoes to com- 
So make your plans now for a thorough attack on high food prices! mercial gardeners. 
Let your own garden provide what you need! 



: Poor Soil 
snap beans your family cares to eat 
DON’T expect your garden to grow during that time. Why tend 50 feet DON’T plant in water-logged or 
itself—advance planning will cut of row when 30 will do? poorly-drained soil. If your garden 
down the amount of work needed, doesn’t drain readily, either find an- 
will make it more productive and other plot or provide tile drainage. 
will provide a constant flow of all DO plan to make succession seed- No soil wiil grow good root crops that 
the fresh vegetables you can eat. ings. Work your garden full time dries out hard and compact. If the 
by planting a good summer garden cost of conditioning such soil is too 
that will produce iamtil frost. And high, as in plots to be used only one 
How Much to Plant DO make provision for canning, year, omit carrots, beets, etc., and 
Figure exactly the number of feet of for freezing and for storing. concentrate on leafy vegetables and 
row to plant. Consult the chart on those that produce above ground, such 
page 20. Decide how many times Soe A S bs as tomatoes, peppers, ete. You can re- 
during the harvest season you want to uccession Seeding make such soil by adding well-rotted 
eat a certain crop, how much of that DON’T work more land than you need organic matter. This may be old 
crop you ordinarily serve to your fam- to. Conserve your energy by inter- manu, spent mushroom manure, 
ily, and plant accordingly. Thus, if cropping, catch cropping and succes- peat ,0ss, rotted compost, ete. If 
you like beans, and if you want to sion cropping. In intercropping, short coal ashes have weathered for at least 
serve them twice a week, 1 pound at season crops are grown between slower a year, they will help break up clay 
a serving, note that a 50 foot row will growing plants (i.e., plant early let- also. So will an application of lime. 
produce about 20 pounds. Since beans tuce between rows of tomato plants On the other hand, light sands can 
produce freely for about three weeks, that won’t need the space until after also be improved by adding liberal 
a 30 foot row should give you all the the lettuce is eaten). In catch crop- amounts of organic matter. 




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BROCCOLI, Italian PEPPER, Pimento 
Green Sprouting 







BEANS, Burpee’s 
Stringless Green Pod 


BEANS LIMA, 
SQUASH, KOHLRABI, — 
Burpee’s Improved Bush 
Table Queen White Vienna 


