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A PROGRAM FOR GARDEN SANITATION 
About 75% of the work and much 
of the damage caused by insects 
can be eliminated by a simple, 
‘regular program of _ sanitation. 
Preventive dusting or spraying is 
much easier than waging a losing 
battle against bugs when they 
appear. Usually, less than 30 
minutes a week should be need- 
ed for a regular sanitation pro- 
gram for both flowers and veg- 
tables, 
Along with a regular program of 
insect control, plan on destroying 
weeds along the edges of your 
garden, the places where insects 
hide during the winter. If pos- 
sible, control the weeds for a 
distance of at least 25 feet on all 
sides of the garden. Not only 
will this eliminate insect hiding 
places, but it will reduce the 
number of weed seeds that might 
otherwise blow onto your garden. 
This program involves two new 
chemicals, Apply a 5% dust of 
D.D.T. to the grass and weeds 
about every three weeks, so that 
most insects that might otherwise 
move into the garden will be 
killed. So will mosquitoes, chig- 
gers and harvest mites that can 
make gardening so unpleasant. 
The regular use of 2,4-D will 
keep down all of the broadleaved 
weeds, without danger of poison- 
ing animals, children or of dam- 
aging equipment with corrosive 
sprays. In using 2,4-D around 
flowers and vegetables, however, 
be extremely careful not to allow 
the spray to drift onto these, as 
most garden plants are as easy 
to kill with this material as the 
weeds. 
Any spray that will kill grasses 
will also hurt the soil so that it 
can't be used for growing plants 
for several years. If this is not 
objectionable, use one of the non- 
selective weed killers—and clear 
the ground of all vegetation (as 
on driveways, tennis courts, etc.) 
Ask us for details. 
New ideas on garden layout 
D.D.T. for pest control promises 
to change the whole scheme of 
garden layout. We can now di- 
vide vegetables into two groups 
—one to be dusted with D.D.T. 
and the other to be left un- 
dusted. The D.D.T. plot should 
be on the lee side so that wind 
will not drift from it into those 
which should not be dusted. 
This puts the following vegetables 
on the side away from the wind 
—bush and pole beans, limas, 
beets unless you want to eat the 
thinnings as greens), carrots, 
sweet. corn, eggplant, okra, 
onions, parsnips, peas, peppers, 
radishes, tomatoes and _ turnips 
(again, only if you don’t eat the 
greens). 
Facing the wind should be the 
vegetables not to be dusted, in- 
cluding Brussels sprouts, cauli- 
flower, Chinese cabbage, collards, 
cucumber, endive, kale, kohl- 
rabi, lettuce, muskmelon, parsley, 
pumpkin, thubarb, spinach, 
squash, Swiss chard and water- 
melon. In general, rows get bet- 
ter distribution of sunshine if they 
run north and south, If this ar- 
rangement isn’t necessary, better 
put corn and other tall crops to 
the north of the shorter crops. 
Sweet corn should not be 
planted in one or two long rows, 
but in several short rows. 
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