BROCCOLI, Italian 
Green Sprouting 
PEPPER, Pimento 
(S HOW TO GROW BETTER VEGETABLES 
For the world's greatest bargain, grow your own vegeta- 
bles. You get dollars for pennies, with a lot of healthy 
fun thrown in free when you grow your own vegetables. 
Where else can you get so much for so little? 
And besides, no vegetables you buy at the store ever 
taste so good—or are so good for you, because vegeta- 
bles begin to undergo a change, almost as soon as they 
are picked, Inevitable natural processes quickly alter their 
flavor, texture and vitamin content, That's why there's no 
substitute for garden-fresh vegetables. 
FIRST, PLAN IT ON PAPER 
The best way to start your garden is to plan it on paper 
first. This way you can get the best food with the least 
amount of time. Start with a rough sketch. Try all of your 
ideas in combination on this rough sketch. When you 
have what you want, convert your rough sketch into a 
final plan, drawn to scale. A scale of one-quarter of an 
inch representing one foot works very well, because by 
using one sixteenth of an inch as three inches, almost 
any standard spacing of the rows can be shown in exact 
scale. 
KEY POINTS 
Divide your garden into three sections if possible. 
Root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruit vegetables. 
By switching these three crops every year you avoid 
many soil-borne diseases and insects and you get better 
use of your fertilizer. This isn't absolutely necessary, but 
it is one of these details that a smart gardener watches. 
On level ground you can run rows either east and west 
or north and south. lf 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 all of your plant food will go down 
the hill when it rains. 
Plan to use your garden full time. To do this, you'll need 
catch crops, intercrops (companion crops) and succession 
crops. Catch crops are early vegetables like spinach, that 
you grow very early before a crop like late cabbage is 
set out. Intercrops are planted between the rows of 
larger vegetables, like head lettuce between rows of 
Broccoli. Succession crops follow early crops. For instance, 
Chinese cabbage will mature fine heads if planted after 
a crop of peas has been taken off. 
HOW MANY SEEDS DO YOU BUY? 
On the eight yellow pages in the middle of this Garden 
Annual are listed bulk quantities of practically all the 
varieties of vegetable seeds we regularly stock. Please 
refer to these pages—particularly if you are a buyer of 
bulk quantities. 
Please note that you can buy as little as five pounds of 
any one variety of seeds such as beans, peas or corn 
at the 10 pound rate. 
To Those of You Who Shop At The Store... 
To give you better service through the busy planting 
season we put up thousands of packages of our tested 
quality seeds during the winter months. We want you 
to know that in these prepackaged seeds you get the 
same high quality tested stock, usually from the same 
original bag of seed as you would get were you to 
stand at the bulk seed counter and wait your turn for a 
salesperson to weigh up your seed order from the bin. 
Ours are not the usual ‘‘run of the mill'' skimpy consign- 
Ihe Garden Store 
ment packets such as you may buy at the corner groc- 
ery store but are full weight bulk stock, carefully tested 
for germination and freshly packed by ourselves. 
Of course if your needs are for larger quantities, then 
your order will be weighed up from our large bulk bins, 
but for the average small home garden you'll save time 
and money too by serving yourself from our mammoth 
self-serve seed racks. 
Dayton, Obio 
