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Show To grow the best beans on the block, or carrots or cabbage cab-bage or com, here are some tips from the April Reader's Digest that should increase your crop and give you a reputation as the greenest thumb in the neighborhood. PLANT ANYWHERE there is good soil and plenty of sun. A garden does not have to be a scaled-down version of the farmer's field. You can sow your seeds in any sunny nook or corner. But six hours of sun is essential, the experts say. Consider what efficiency means in gardening-then j mulch to retain moisture amd discourage weeds, use the "trickle" system of watering with a perforated hose to release a steady supply of moisture directly to the ground, choose vegetable varieties that can be trained on poles to save space. And if you stagger your rows in a honeycomb pattern you can almost double your yield in produce. PLAN AHEAD so that your land is fully occupied. Letrtfre wilts in hot weather; when it's finished pull it up and plant another crop. Successive Succes-sive plantings will not only help feed your family in the summer, they'll give you bounty for the freezer too. You can beat the frost if you lent your garden with a plastic plas-tic film; your plants will continue con-tinue to mature during the warm sunny days. When heavy frost finally threatens, get your produce indoors. Tomatoes can ripen in a covered box. while parsley and chives continue to grow on your kitchen windowsill. VEGETABLE gardening is fun. It can also be fruitful I when you apply a little ingenuity along with the fertilizer. |