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WHAT, HOW AND WHEN TO PLANT 
WHAT AND HOW TO PLANT 
In selecting vegetables to plant include the 
ones your family should eat as well as the 
kinds they like. A well-balanced diet is 
most important and should include green 
vegetables, yellow vegetables, leafy vege- 
tables, root vegetables and tomatoes. 
Leafy or green vegetables for crisp salads. 
‘These are rich in vitamins and minerals. 
Root vegetables, beets, carrots, turnips and 
onions, all rich in health-giving vitamins. 
Vine vegetables—peas, beans, cucumbers, 
on the fence or trellis. The heavy-fruited 
types, like vine squash, and pumpkin, should 
be grown on the ground as always, among 
the corn to save space. 
Flowers to complement the vegetables. 
Morale does not stop with the stomach. 
Flowers for the house, fresh from the gar- 
den, are essential. Plant them, as shown, on 
the plan to make the view from the house 
attractive and colorful. 
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SOW SEEDS AT RIGHT TIME 
Work down the top soil with a rake until 
it is level, fine and in perfect physical con- 
dition, before attempting to plant seed. 
Seed should be sown thinly in shallow rills, 
made with a stick as shown in the sketch. 
To make the rows straight, follow a line of 
string stretched between stakes placed at 
either end of the row. The depth of this 
rill depends on the variety sown. Check 
with the depth of planting chart on page 21 
before sowing seed. 
Seed may be sown directly from the 
packet, or by rubbing a pinch of seed be- 
tween the thumb and the first two fingers. 
This latter method gives a thinner distribu- 
tion of the seed. Small seeds should not be 
thicker than 10 to the inch. Sow one row 
at a time and after-each row, cover the 
seed lightly, touching the loose soil with 
a rake. Place the board used for, walking 
between the rows on top of the sown seed 
and walk across it to firm the soil for bet- 
ter germination. 
Treatment of the seed with “Spergon” will 
eliminate a great deal of damping off, and 
rotting of the seed after sowing, especially 
if sown during the wet weather. 
SPADIN G THE SOIL ~This operation 
may be done as soon as the 
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If the soil is moist, but not wet, at the time 
of sowing, watering will not be necessary 
before the seedlings are up. If it dries out, 
however, sprinkle carefully so as not to 
wash out the small seedlings. 
USE PLENTY OF FERTILIZER 
Fertilizers are very important. The food 
value of garden vegetables for human con- 
sumption depends greatly on their mineral 
content, derived from the soil. The vitamin 
content depends on the vigor of growth 
and the abundance of sunlight. Therefore 
the fertilizing of the soil is important to 
insure vigorous growth and healthy mineral 
and vitamin-rich vegetables. A good prac- 
tice is to spade commercial fertilizer, bal- 
anced to supply the necessary proportions 
of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, Later 
in the season, applications of fertilizers in 
small doses, as side dressings, keep vege- 
tables in active growth. We recommend 
Vigoro for general all purpose use. 
WATERING IS IMPORTANT 
Watering will be necessary during the 
enough in the day to evaporate drops of 
water from the leaves before nightfall. 
Water generously, soaking the soil deeply 
each time, rather than by quick ‘‘sprinkles”’ 
with the hose. In this way, the roots will 
grow deep, feed better and be protected 
from drouth, in case watering is missed 
during a hot dry spell. Once every week or 
ten days should be ample for most soils. No 
rules can be formulated to determine the 
necessity of watering. Observation of the 
soil, and testing with a shovel, will best 
determine when to water. 
CULTIVATE OFTEN 
To conserve moisture and promote growth 
of plants, give a complete cultivation of 
the surface soil the day following each rain 
or watering. Be careful not to go deep in 
the soil, else the roots will be injured. 
Most plants benefit by frequent and regu- 
lar cultivation. Beans and peas, however, 
need only a light cultivation until they be- 
gin to set flowers, when further cultiva- 
tion may cause the buds to drop and re- 
duce the crop. 
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SOW SEEDS AT THE PROPER 
DEPTH 
The above chart gives the ideal depth of 
cover for vegetable seed in well drained 
garden soil. Heavy soils should be lightened 
by addition of gypsum, peat, manure, bean 
straw or similar humus material. Don’t sow 
too deep—the smaller the seed the lighter 
the cover. 

SPRAY AND DUST FOR PESTS 
Insects and diseases may infest the vege- 
table garden but may never become a seri- 
ous problem if one watches for evidence of 
damage and takes prompt action. Sprays 
and dusts are available in convenient pack- 
ages to combat every garden pest. When 
spraying cover all parts of the plant and 
both sides of the leaves. Do a thorough job 
promptly and avoid a serious infestation. 
SPACE SAVING IN THE VEGETABLE 
GARDEN 
Simple expedients that save space in the 
garden and make better vegetables are al- 
ways helpful to the home gardener. The 
average plan will call for the easier kinds: 
Beets, carrots, swiss chard, leaf lettuce, 
onions and corn, all of which can be grown 
in small gardens. A few others, requiring 
a larger space, can be grown by training 
on poles, trellises, or fences, thus utilizing 
a minimum of soil space. 
Other quick maturing kinds can be grown 
between rows of the slower growing, and 
longer maturing kinds, or even between the 
plants in the row. The ground then does 
double duty, and it is therefore quite es- 
sential to fertilize the soil in order to sup- 
port these extra crops and to watch the 
watering more carefully for the demands 
of the garden will be greater. 
Try a few of these methods—save the extra 
effort of a larger garden by intensively 
working a smaller area. 

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