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Skill in Seed Sowing Essential to Success of Gardening
"When sowing seeds directly in
the garden, the amateur should
keep in mind twa points how deep
to sow, and how far apart. Modern
practice favors shallow sowing,
the depth being determined by the
size in most cases. Small seeds
ere barely covered, and larger
seeds placed at a depth about four
times their diameter.
How far apart is . not so easy
to determine. If sown too thinly,
the hazards of garden ' life may
cause vacant spaces to be left in
the row. If sown too thickly, there
will be extra work thinning out
plants, so those which remain have
room to develop.
Larger seeds, like peas and
beans can be accurately spaced.
Dwarf peas one inch apart will de
velop sturdy plants without thin
ning, and if some seeds fail to
grow they will not be missed. Bush
.beans usually are allowed to grow
four inches apart in the row. To
avoid vacant spaces sow beans in
pairs, spaced four inches apart.
Seldom will both seeds in a pair
fail to grow. If both grow one can
easily be pulled up. or let both de
velop since twin plants will do as
well as singles.
Thinned Later
Beet seed and swiss chard are
large enough to be spaced pre
cisely, and may be planted an inch
or two apart, and thinned out
Every beet seed will produce a
group of plants. If you thin them
just as the root is beginning to
take its globular form, -the tops
and tiny roots cooked together will
make a delicious dish.
Avoid sowing any eeds so thick'
lv that they touch each other,
Their roots will entangle, and it
will be difficult to thin them prop
erly. It may help to mix small
teeds with dry sand,, before you
begin to sow, using two or three
times as much sand as seeds. This
spreads the seed out better.
Twice as Much
If seed is of sub-standard germ
ination, or known to be old, sow
twice as much. Carrot seedlings
are feeble, and often have diff i
cuHy breaking through the soil "if
it is at all inclined to crust. Use
twice as much carrot seed if you
have doubts about your soil b&ng
porous enough.
The surest way " to sow small
seeds is to take a few in the hand,
and let them fall through the fin
gers into the drill which has been
prepared. Get close to the ground,
and with a little practice you can
quickly acquire control so that the
seeds will be evenly distributed,
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each sufficiently distant from the
next to prevent entanglement. .
Keep the seeds in line as well as
you can. It .helps to let the gar
den line which was used in mak
ing the drill remain in place until
the deeds have been dropped.
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Remember
Pretty Fall
Foliage ( Now
Many home owners like to plant
trees that will provide rich green
foliage in summer and glorious
reds, oranges and yellows in the
fall. Evergreen trees of course
will provide beautiful green col
or all year from light green dur
ing the Jicight of their growing
season to deep green all winter.
In the foliage of deciduous
trees, which shed their leaves,
there are two groups of coloring
pigments. These are the carojktns,
which provide ' yellow color; and
the anthocyanins, which cause
leaves to turn red. Soil fertility
and the amount of water avail
able also have some effect on fol
iage color.
Trees having gray foliage in
clude the Russian olive, and some
of the poplars, willows and the
little-leafed linden. They turn
yellow dn the fall. i
Trees with red fall color in
elude many of the maples, horn
beams, dogwoods, oaks, sassafras,
plums, and viburnums.
Those with brilliant yellow fall
color include some the maples,
birch, redbud, beech, gingko,
magnolia and ash. -
Consult with your local arbor
ist or tree expert for trees to give
you the colors you want., A mix
ture of evergreen, red and yel
low provide strikingly lovely ef
fects in the fall months, provid
ing you have the room for a num
ber of trees.
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Peas are best if thinning is not needed. Therefore sow peas
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duoui one intri cuau. rew vacancies win appear in ine row
if good quality seed is used and a layer of loose soil placed
on the surface, after the garden loam has been firmed
around the seeds. " : i
Awards Total
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4-H Projects
Don't Crowd Turnips
If Quality Wanted
; Turnips do not grow well if
crowded. If the young plants are!
pulled up so they stand 4 inches
apart in the row, in a remarkable
abort time they will be large
enough to use'.
Beets are more easily handled
than turnips when they are a little
larger, and one should not "fail
to try a dish of beet tops with the
tiny garden menu. The beets which
are left in the ground should be
spaced 2 inches apart.
Awards totalling $50,000 are be
ing offered 4-H Club members iae
the 19m National 4-p harden, tan-j shrinks,
ning ana frozen roods programs.
Of the half-million 4-H'ers who
participate in the three projects
each year; those with outstanding
records will be honored on county;
state, sectional and national levels;
Medals will be offered to four
outstanding garden j members in
each county. State-winners in the
program will receive trips to the
National 4-H Congress in Chicago,
Nov. 27-Dec. 1. The , eight top
ranking 4-H'ers among the state
winners 1 will get $300 college
scholarships each. For the 10th
consecutive vear. the tractor di
vision of Allis-Chalmers is provid-j
ing the awards tor garden winners.
Similar county and state awards
are available to canning winners.
with the Kerr Glass Mfg. Corp.
the donor. I
In the frozen foods program.
medals are provided for two coun
ty winners by International Har
vester. ' State winners will receive
$50 U. S. Savings Bonds All-ex
pense trips to the National 4-H
Club Congress will be given eight
sectional winners, representing all
parts of the country, and six of
the trip winners will be presented
$300 scholarships .as national winners.
Feed Lawn Early
For Best Results
Feeding the lawn should be one
of your first garden tasks in the
early i spring. When frost comes
out of the ground, there is a stage
in the thawing process that causes
to be perforated as
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There will be few vacant spaces
in row, if large seeds are
sown in pairs. Here are
white beans being planted
in pairs about four inches
apart. If the beans are the
pole variety, they need to be
planed a bit farther apart.
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These bean seedlings have won the first battle, by struggling
through the soil to reach the sunlight. A loose one-way tp
soil greatly helps in getting the garden off to a good start.
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A good plant food applied to this
"honey-combed" soil, is carried
down to the grass roots more
quickly than later-in-the-spring
feeding.
? Perennial borders, trees and
shrubs also respond to this treat
ment in early springj
Consult your nurseryman or
garden supply dealer for the best
in plant foods.
Maldthion
Effective on
Garden Pests
Continued experimentation with
malathion, the multi-purpose in
secticide, has uncovered new uses
for this product around the gar
den. Recent tests hav shown
malathion effective against insects
which attack lettuce, onion, spin
ach, strawberries and peaches in
addition to the many other pests
against which this product was
originally ireported to be effective.
It is effective against more than
73 kinds of insects found on more
than 40 different types of plants.
Described by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture as "one of
the safest insecticides to handle,"
malathion is also a highly effec
tive fly killer even against spe
cies that have become resistant to
other chemicals cucb as DDT.
" An increasing number of insec
ticide formulators are using mala
thion as ' the major - ingredient.
These ready-to-use products are
now available ' in garden supply
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Space Seeds
Accurately
Small garden seed can rarely
be sown so sparsely that thinning
out excess plants can be avoided
in the home vegetable garden.
Large seed can be spaced ac
curately, - but with small ones it
is necessary to Sow more than
there . is room to . mature, and
jwhen they come up many must be
sacrificed so that the others may
have room to develop.
The reason for this is the evr
present risk in gardening. The
moulds which destroy seeds in the
ground, or the seedlings just
emerging, will always take their
toll. Other mishaps may occur
to plants as they grow larger, so
it is always well to have a few
spares growing. The amateur likes
a row to be filled out with no
vacant spaces, and should be will
ing to devote extra labor to in
suring this, by doing his thinning
gradually.
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Divide primroses and plant
them in semi-shade as soon as
they have finished blooming. Let
sweet Williams go to seed, and
let the seeds fall on j the ground
to i-enew the planting! Sweet Wil
liams are biennial and this is the
easy method to keep! them coming
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