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SAVE YOUR GARDEN ANNUAL FOR FUTURE USE 
On this and succeeding pages of our Garden Annual is the “Home Gardening 
Guide"—a wealth of information to the beginning gardener as well as the veteran. 
Here you will find practical everyday tacts that will give you a good foundation 
to better gardening of vegetables and flowers. 
You can easily recognize these guide posts by the red head at the top of the 
page. 
Keep your Garden /innual handy. 
We have planned it to give you information 
the year round. If you have an unanswered question after consulting the Home 
Gardening Guide, come in and ask us personally. We have a wealth of informa- 
tion and experience in local planting problems—it’s your's for the asking. 
On Planning Your Garden 
No one can fully plan your garden for 
you, because garden planning is a highly 
personal, individual matter. Give your own 
ideas and desires plenty of play—and 
you'll enjoy your garden more. 
There are certain absolutely basic facts 
that apply to all home garden planning. 
1—Divide the garden into three sections if 
possible, (1) Root vegetables, (2) Leaf veg- 
etables, and (3) Fruit vegetables. By 
switching these three groups every year 
you avoid many soil-borne diseases and 
insects and get better use of fertilizers. 
This isn't absolutely necessary, but it is 
one of those details that the smart gar- 
dener watches. 
2—On level ground, you can run either 
east and west or north and south. If east- 
and-west layout is used, be sure to plant 
taller vegetables to the ‘north. On sloping 
ground, the rows must run across the 
slope, not up and down. Otherwise ll 
your plant food and much of your topsoil 
will go down the hill when it rains. 
38—Plan to grow enough vegetables for 
storing and canning. Remember that cor- 
rect storage begins with planting so pro- 
vide for this when planning your garden 
and ordering seed. 
4—In smaller gardens, don’t plant space- 
wasting crops like Potatoes, Pumpkins, 
Sweet Corn and Vine Squash. On the farm 
these can be grown with the field crops, 
saving the more highly cultivated garden 
space for the more productive vegetables 
that need closer attention. Many gardeners 
report that Zucchini and other bush 
squashes gave better results than Eggplant 
and satisfied many of the requirements for 
vining Squashes, 
5—Include perennial vegetables when pos- 
sible. Rhubarb, Asparagus, Horse Radish 
and Perennial Onions can be grown on 
one side of the garden where they won't 
interfere with plowing or cultivating. Small 
fruits should be included whenever space 
will permit, since the quality of home- 
grown berries is far better than any you 
can buy, 
6—Avoid growing vegetables your family 
doesn’t like and won't eat, but be sure to 
include plenty of those they do like. If 
they're fond of beans, for instance, don’t 
be satisfied with a single large planting, 
but make several smaller plantings at 
two weeks intervals. 
Plan it on Paper First 
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Study the charts on pages 22 and 23, They 
will tell how far apart rows should be, 
how long each crop takes to mature, and 
how much space you will need to provide 
the vegetables your family likes. After you 
have taken into consideration the crops 
you want to grow, make a rough sketch 
showing the location of each crop, with 
catch crops, intercrops, succession crops 
indicated, 
