
SQUASH, 
Table Queen 


Cut living costs! 
Grow your own food! 
Now, more than ever before, YOU NEED A GARDEN! 
With sky-high food prices, a garden is a better investment than ever! 
Back in the days when food prices were reasonable, a nation-wide 
survey showed that, for every dollar spent on home gardens, the 
average return in vegetables was more than ten dollars. Today, the 
ratio is far higher. 
Think of the prices you'll have to pay this year, if you buy fresh 
vegetables in the markets! It’s not a very pleasant thought, is it? 
But you can beat these high prices—by growing your own! And what’s 
more, you'll have fun doing it. There’s no more pleasant and healthful 
occupation than gardening! 
So make your plans now for a thorough attack on high food prices! 
Let your own garden provide what you need! 
DON’T expect your garden to grow 
itself—advance planning will cut 
down the amount of work needed, 
will make it more productive and 
will provide a constant flow of all 
the fresh vegetables you can eat. 

How Much to Piant 
Figure exactly the number of feet of 
row to plant. Consult the chart on 
page 20. Decide how many times 
during the harvest season you want to 
eat a certain crop, how much of that 
crop you ordinarily serve to your fam- 
ily, and plant accordingly. Thus, if 
you like beans, and if you want to 
serve them twice a week, 1 pound at 
a serving, note that a 50 foot row will 
produce about 20 pounds. Since beans 
produce freely for about three weeks, 
a 30 foot row should give you all the 

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snap beans your family cares to eat 
during that time. Why tend 50 feet 
of row when 30 will do? 

DO plan to make succession seed- 
ings. Work your garden full time 
by planting a good summer garden 
that will produce wmtil frost. And 
DO make provision for canning, 
for freezing and for storing. 

Succession Seeding 
DON’T work more land than you need 
to. Conserve your energy by inter- 
cropping, catch cropping and succes- 
sion cropping. In intercropping, short 
season crops are grown between slower 
growing plants (i.e., plant early let- 
tuce between rows of tomato plants 
that won’t need the space until after 
the lettuce is eaten). In catch crop- 
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Stringless Green Pod 
Practical answers to every-day 
questions about home gardening 
ping, plant an early crop before the 
main crop is planted. In succession 
cropping the main crop comes first 
(i.e.. snap beans to be followed by 
late turnips). In this way you make 
better use of space, cut down the 
number of rows to tend, and make 
better use of water and fertilizers. 
In the smaller garden, concentrate on 
vegetables that lose quality most rap- 
idly when shipped any distance—deli- 
cately flavored green beans, summer 
squash, early cabbage and leaf lettuce. 
Unless you have plenty of room, bet- 
ter leave late cabbage, dry onions, 
winter squash and potatoes to com- 
mercial gardeners. 
Poor Soil 
DON’T plant in water-logged or 
poorly-drained soil. If your garden 
doesn’t drain readily, either find an- 
other plot or provide tile drainage. 
No soil will grow good root crops that 
dries out hard and compact. If the 
cost of conditioning such soil is too 
high, as in plots to be used only one 
year, omit carrots, beets, etc., and 
concentrate on leafy vegetables and 
those that produce above ground, such 
as tomatoes, peppers, etc. You can re- 
make such soil by adding well-rotted 
organic matter. This may be old 
manure, spent mushroom manure, 
peat moss, rotted compost, etc. If 
coal ashes have weathered for at least 
a year, they will help break up clay 
also. So will an application of lime. 
On the other hand, light sands can 
also be improved by adding liberal 
amounts of organic matter. 







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