OCR Text |
Show TIPS to ijardeners GARDENS FOR DEFENSE TPHE home gardener has an im-portant im-portant place in our program of national defense, a much more important role than he played during dur-ing the first World war. In the face of these facts, gardeners gar-deners are advised to do two things: Plan to devote increased space to vegetable gardening; and perfect plans for the 1941 garden so as to get the greatest possible yield from the available space. In stepping up yield from vegetable vege-table gardens of limited size, two major devices should be relied on, first, companion cropping the planting of fast-growing crops like radishes, spinach, and lettuce between be-tween rows of slower-growing vegetables like tomatoes, and cabbage. cab-bage. Second, succession cropping the repeated planting of major crops such as beans, sweet corn, radishes, carrots, beets, and let- tuce. Moderate-size, new plantings plant-ings made at regular intervals during the early part of the season will provide a steady supply of fresh vegetables until the season's end. |