The ideal soil for seed is light 
and porous but will hold moisture 
enough to permit good germina- 
tion. 
A good soil mixture for seeding 
either indoors or outside is: % 
light loam, %4 sand and 4 granu- 
lated peat moss. The addition of 
leaf mold improves the mixture. 
The top 2 inches of a seed bed 
should be screened through a 
%-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. 
Mark the surface of the flat or 
seed bed by pressing a narrow 
edged ruler or garden label lightly 
into the surface. Sow the seed 
thinly in the depressions, either 
directly from the seed packets, or 
by sifting it out between your 
thumb and forefinger. The seed 
should be covered lightly. A fine 
meshed kitchen screen serves very 
well for this purpose. Place a 
handful of dry soil mixture in the 
screen and sieve onto the seed drill. 
BLUEPRINTS FOR 
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, Paive 4 
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. 
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Furns ture 
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. 
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 
apart. When filling the seed flats 
planned vegetable garden will provide 
4 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 eae es, we yee ates 
om half inch o e flat place 
at put vegetables on your table that gravel or soil sereenines’tou 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. 
renrial Vegetables 
NORECE) FET, | Eg 
Cabbag and Caulflower and 
Strawberries 
Ly |] | og) Radish, Leef Lettuce, 
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