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THE PATIO—YOUR OUTDOOR LIVING ROOM. By all means, provide some 
living space in your garden, if you want to get the most enjoyment out of it. Pay- 
ing materials such as porous bricks or sand stone are usually the best. Wet the 
paving on warm days and enjoy the cooling effect of the evaporating moisture. 
If you are not fortunate enough to have a shade tree in your patio, be sure to 
plant one and use a beach umbrella for shade while it is growing up. 

The ideal soil for seed is light Basket Weave 
and porous but will hold moisture Brick Pattern 
enough to permit good germina- 
tion. PLanTs FoR Po7s 
A good soil mixture for seeding Peturias, Verbena, 
either indoors or outside is: % Segoriia, Geranium. 
light loam, %4 sand and % granu- Plant in standard clay pots which may be 
lated peat moss. The addition of : . 
leaf mold improves the mixture. set mm orramental containers. 
The top 2 inches of a seed bed Blueprints for Better Gardens (3) 
should be screened through a 
%4-inch mesh screen. The ingre- 
dients should be thoroughly mixed 
and, just before sowing, firmed 
down with a flat block of wood or 
Similar implement. 

THE FLOWER BORDER can be the most interesting feature of your garden with 
its ever changing aspect of masses of color. By using annuals, biennials, perennials 
and bulbs, the opportunity to create pleasing and unusual effects is unlimited. Be 
sure to select plant materials that will give you flowers over a long period of time. 

THE FLOWER BoRDER : 
Plan shows how plants are selected Background Shruts, Fence, Wall or Hedge . 
and arranged tn drifts" of one kirrd 
each, selecting varieties and colors Bd 
fo suit. Keep rotes for use in making \ (|| tu) } 
changes next season. KE etn 
“Accents*are plants otfferent i 
appearance frope rerghbors in 
form, corand texture. oy, sts oor hdl Lore deel 
Add bulbs for spring and wric/- . 
summer L/oom: “4A Ahasoey 
flower beds narrower than indicated should be of ow 
and medium height or of only one height: 
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For growing seeds indoors either 
pots or shallow boxes known as 
flats, are satisfactory. Whichever 
you use be sure the drainage is 
good. In the case of flats see that 
the boards on the bottom are 
; VEGETABLES—WHY NOT? A _ well spaced about a quarter of an inch 
Sowing the Seed planned vegetable garden will provide apart. When filling the seed flats 
es ‘1 2 : place some material such as gran- 
pleasure for every member of the family. ulated peat moss along the cracks 

The most modern methods of handling to prevent the soil from washing 
commercially grown garden produce can through the bottom. On the bot- 
cE fevacotahl A STeeta teeta t tom half inch of the flat place 
ot PUL OB CADIER | Chay aU be gravel or soil screenings to help 
will match the freshly gathered home the drainage. If pots are used be 
grown product for eating quality. Sure to put some drainage ma- 
terial in the bottoms. 

VEGETABLES-WHY NOT 2? —~25-50' Wid of of) ———>+| 
ows run north and seuth to fake Perennial Vegetables 
advantage of necessary surbight. 
Select kinds and varieties desired. 
Mark the surface of the flat or Sow in Geounb: Beans, Peas, Corn, 

seed bed by pressing a narrow Carrots, Beets, Melons, Ormon, Lettuce. 8 
edged ruler or garden label lightly N 
into the surface. Sow the seed SET, £ 
thinly in the depressions, either Sow iw FRAME: (or flats in cold Frome) s 
directly from the seed packets, or Tomato, Pepper, Celery, Eggplant, d 
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by es e our Peenoen your Cabbage and Cauhfjower and 
thumb and forefinger. The seec transpharrt. 
should be covered lightly. A fine pols i/ and replant after 
meshed kitchen screen serves very epare So! Lcieats % 
well for this purpose. Place a crop has been harvested. ont spe ets 
handful of dry soil mixture in the Greer Onions 17 : 
screen and sieve onto the seed drill. Blueprints for Better Garders 
Corn Minimum 4rows 

14 TREAT SWEET PEA SEEDS WITH NITRAGIN 
