PLAN FOR A COLD FRAME 
A cold frame is the same as a hotbed without manure or other source 
ef artificial heat. It depends upon the sun for heat, and must be 
covered with hotbed mats to conserve this heat at night. It can be 
used only after the weather has warmed up somewhat, but before 
the danger from late frosts is past. 
Lettuce and radishes planted in 
the cold frame a month before frost is expected can be grown until 
late in the year if the glass is kept covered at night. 
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The Compost Heap 
The compost heap is a ‘’must’’ for 
the permanent garden. Select a 
spot behind a shed or otherwise 
hidden (if your garden is in the 
open) and spread out your garden 
wastes over this area in a layer 
six inches deep. Use weeds, old 
vegetable and flower plants, any 
non-greasy vegetable waste from 
the kitchen and lawn clippings. 
Trimmings from lawn edging are 
particularly valuable. 
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Between each six inch layer, 
sprinkle a little lime and a liberal 
amount of a good mixed fertilizer. 
The fertilizer will feed the bacteria 
that cause the vegetable wastes to 
decay. Then apply three or four 
inches of good garden soil over 
the lime and fertilizer. Repeat until 
the pile is two feet high. Wet 
down if rain doesn’t fall. In six 
months all weed seeds and other 
vegetable matter will be broken 
down by the bacteria into a rich 
home made ‘‘manure”’ that will go 
a long ways towards making yours 
a perfect soil. You need not waste 
the space used for the heap, since 
cucumbers, melons and squashes 
never grow as well as when plant- 
ed in shallow depressions in the 
compost heap. 
Garden Sanitation 
Weed control for a distance of at 
least 25 feet on all sides of the 
permanent garden is highly desir- 
able. First, this helps reduce the 
number of weed seeds that will 
be carried or blown onto the gar- 
den itself. A few hours spent in 
weed control at any convenient 
time may save hours and days of 
weeding when time is precious. 
Equally important is the value of 
destroying the hiding places of 
many insects that cause trouble in 
the garden. Leaf hoppers and bor- 
ers travel from weedy patches to 
garden plants. Many pests hiber- 
nate and live over winter in weeds. 
By killing off weeds and keeping 
this zone dusted with D.D.T., few- 
er insects will attack the garden. 
Incidentally, chiggers or harvest 
mites are kept down by this treat- 
ment, increasing comfort in work- 
ing the garden. 
Weed destruction today has been 
simplified greatly with the im- 
provements of the amazing new 
2,4D weed killers which destroy 
weeds’ selectively and without 
danger to animals or equipment. 
Easiest Annuals 
to Grow 
We are often asked to recommend 
annuals for growing without much 
care, particularly around summer 
cottages used only on week ends, 
or where the soil is poor. We sug- 
gest Calliopsis, Gaillardia, Mari- 
gold, Petunia, annual Phlox, Sca- 
biosa, Verbena and Zinnia. These 
usually bloom profusely without 
care or extra watering, though 
some water applied when seed is 
sown will often insure germination. 
WHY FOLKS LIKE TO BUY 
GARDEN SUPPLIES HERE 
We don’t have any monopoly on the Garden 
Supplies we sell. Quite a few of them can be 
bought in many other stores. 
But good gardeners still prefer to buy here, be- 
cause this is a real garden store. Here every 
transaction is a friendly deal between gardeners. 
Here we try our best to deliver something more 
than just merchandise. 
That’s because we’re SEEDSMEN—and proud of it! 
FOR GARDEN SUPPLIES 
SEE THE SEEDSMAN! 
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