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LOCATION—PREPARING THE SOIL 
Exposure for the vegetable garden should be sunny. No 
common vegetable will grow under trees, or in the shade of 
bu.ldings—only a few herbs will thrive under such conditions. 
The garden should be as open and as sunny as possible. 
Sometimes buildings on adjacent lots may shade the garden 
a little, but if the sun reaches the soil at least haif of the day, 
you will be able to grow most any vegetable you desire, 
Pian the vegetabie rows to run from north to south. This 
d-rection gives the most benefit from the sun. Another way 
is to piant the taller kinds behind so that they never shade the 
small ones. 
Good soil is as essential as sunlight to growing plants. 
Most soils will grow vegetables, or can be made suitable by 
thorough, deep spading and liberal applications of manure, 
peat or other humus material at that time. Dig as deep as the 
spading fork or spade.will go, forcing it straight down before 
lifting and turning the soil over, breaking up all, clods. Grass 
may be turned under to rot and make humus, but the roots of 
perennial weeds, like dandelions and thistles,: should’ be re- 
moved. Throw out all large stones, building refuse and other 
material detrimental to growing piants. 
WHAT AND HOW TO PLANT 
In selecting vegetables to plant include the ones your family 
should eat as well as the kinds they like. A well balanced diet 
is most important and should include green vegetables, yellow 
vegetables, leafy vegetables, root vegetables, and tomatoes, 
Flowers to compliment the vegetables. Morale does not stop 
with the stomach. Flowers for the house, fresh from the 
garden, are essential. Plant them, as shown, on the plan to 
make the view from the. house attractive and colorful. 
SOW SEEDS AT RIGHT TIME 
Sow seeds at the proper season and avoid waste. 
the highest quality seeds avai:abie. 
Work down the top soil with a rake until it is levei, fine 
and in perfect physical condition, before attemp ing to plant 
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Seed should be sown thinly in shallow rills, made with a 
stick as shown in the sketch. To make the rows straight 
follow a line of string stretched between stakes piaced at 
either end of the row. The depth of this rill depends on the 
variety sown. Check with the depth of planting chart on 
page 3 before sowing seed. 
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Seed may be sown directly from the packet, or by rubbing 
a pinch of seed between the thumb and the first two fingers. 
This latter method gives a thinner distribution of the seed. 
Small seeds should not be thicker than 10 to the inch. Sow one 
row at a time and after each row, cover the seed lightly, 
touching the loose soil with a rake. Place the board used for 
walking between the rows on top the sown seed and walk 
across it to firm the soil for better germination. 
Treatment of the seed with ‘‘Cuprocide’”’ will eliminate a 
great deal of damping off, and rotting of the seed after sowing, 
especially if sown during the wet weather. 
If the soil is moist, but not wet, at the time of sowing, 
watering will not be necessary before the seedlings are up. 
If it dries out, however, sprinkle carefully so as not to wash 
out the small seedlings. 
USE PLENTY OF GOOD FERTILIZER 
Fertilizers are very important. The food value of garden 
vegetables for human consumption depends greatly on their 
mineral content, derived from the soil. The vitamin content 
depends on the vigor of growth and the abundance of sun- 
light. Therefore, the fertilizing of the soil is important to 
insure vigorous growth and healthy mineral and vitamin-rich 
vegetables. A good practice is to spade commercial fertilizer, 
balanced to supply the necessary proportions of nitrogen, 
phosphorous and potash. Later in the season, applications of 
fertilizers in small doses, as side dressings, keep vegetables in 
active growth. Ask us for special fertilizer formulas for vege- 
table gardens. 
WATERING IS IMPORTANT 
Watering will be necessary during the growing season. It 
should be done early enough in the day to evaporate drops of 
water from the leaves before nightfall. Water generously, 
soaking the soil deeply each time, rather than by quick 
“sprinkles” with the hose. In this way, the roots will grow 
deep, feed better and be protected from drouth, in case water- 
ing is missed during a hot dry spell. Once every week or ten 
days should be ample for moist soils. No rules can be formu- 
lated to determine the necessity of watering. Observation of 
the soil, and testing with a shovel, will best determine when 
to water. 
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Plant carrots, tur- lettuce and bunch- Tomatoes are best on a stout Train pole beans, Get an extra crop. Radishes, 
nips, beets, onions, ing onions in beds trellis. Tie with strips of soft tall peas, limas, or of quick maturing onions, or 
Jettuce spinach and which are later eloth. Pinch or prune some cucumbers on heavy crops by planting Jettuce be- 
celery in double planted to other of side branches but not the twine stretched be- with slow kinds. tween peppers 
rows one foot apart crops requiring flower clusters which grow tween poles and or eggplant 
instead of single rows. more space 
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wires or train on the fence rows. 
TRY SOME OF THESE “SPACE SAVERS” IN YOUR GARDEN 
24 CONSULT US FOR THE BEST VARIETIES OF VEGETABLES TO PLANT FOR ASSURED SUCCESS 
