A little planning saves time and labor 
A well-planted garden is not the result 
of on-the-spur-of-the-moment planting. A 
sketchy outline is sufficient to indicate 
where you want your vegetables, where 
your low growing, where your tall-grow- 
ing flowers. The result of planning will 
be a thought-out garden with flowers in 
bloom almost the year around. 
How to Control 
SOIL INSECTS 
Don’t let the bugs eat your choice 
vegetables and flowers. Control soil in- 
sects such as wire worms and cut worms 
on seed grown crops by treating the 
seed with a multi-purpose dust. Mix one 
or two ounces of this dust with a pound 
of seed when sowing. To obtain even 
more protection treat the soil with this 
dust a few weeks after the plants are up. 
Rhododendrons, Camellias, Azaleas, 
Primroses, and many other ornamental 
plants can be severely damaged or even 
killed by the troublesome strawberry root 
weevil. Treat the soil around these plants 
with the preparation mentioned above. 
This all purpose insecticide will also 
serve to control leaf and stem insect 
pests. 
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Compost your lawn clippings, 
vegetable tops and peelings, dry 
leaves and other vegetable matter 
for a rich source of humus and 
plant food. 
Make a pit or bin and throw the 
compost material into it, add a 
sprinkling of packaged compost 
maker and 2 inches of soil to each 
foot of vegetable matter. Repeat » 
until pile is 3 or 4 feet deep. Keep 
moist to promote bacterial action. 
In about 6 months the compost 
will be ready to use. Spread it on 
the garden as you would barnyard 
manure. Used with peat moss and 
commercial fertilizer, compost is 
a really important aid to good 
gardening. 
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Select kinds and varieties desired. 
Sow 1N Geound: Beans, Peas, Corn, 
. Carrots, Beets,Melons, Onion, Lettuce. 
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Temato, Pepper, Celery Eggplant, 
Cabbage and Cault/ower and 
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Prepare soil and replant after 
crop has been harvested. 
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VEGETABLES—WHY NOT? A well planned vegetable garden will provide pleasure for 
every member of the family. The most modern methods of handling commercially grown 
garden produc: can not put vegetables on your table that will match the freshly gathered home 
grown product for eating quality. 
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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 
spaced about a quarter of an inch 
apart. When filling the seed flats 
place some material such as granu- 
lated peat moss along the cracks 
to prevent the soil from washing 
through the bottom. On the bot- 
tom half inch of the flat place 
gravel or soil screenings to help 
the drainage. If pots are used be 
sure to put some drainage ma- 
terial in the bottoms. 
Water the seed bed thoroughly, 
but gently with a fine spray. A 
coarse spray or stream of water 
will wash the seed out of the soil. 
For this reason, when using an 
outdoor seed bed, it is well to have 
a cover available to place over the 
seed bed during rainy spells. This 
should be supported several inches 
over the seed bed to allow free 
circulation of air. 
Be sure to keep the seed bed 
moist. Excessive dryness will pre- 
vent germination. 
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