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Show SMALL GARDEN WORTH WHILE Much Can Be Raised on Patch of Ground Which Soma Might Thing Negligible. Don't despise the little patch of ground for a vegetable garden. Even n little pocket - handkerchief sized patch will produce something worth while. A stalwurt tomato plant trained to a stake can be grown in a foot square of ground, and training a single trunk to s stake is the very best and the Ideal way of growing tomatoes. It Is wasteful to allow them to sprawl over the ground In the old-fashioned old-fashioned way where If Is Impossible to gather the tomatoes without Injuring Injur-ing the vines, and when a portion of the fruit is likely to rot from contact with the earth. Accommodate the vegetable that can be planted closely to the size of the garden. Even a 3 by 5 patch would grow lettuce, radishes and young onions for a number of meals for a small family. A 10 by 10 garden, which Is usually within the reach of anybody who has any garden room at all, will give substantial return. It wouldn't accommodate much In the way of sweet corn, potatoes or melons, but It would take care of tomatoes, peppers, radishes, young onions, carrots, car-rots, a few beets, string beans or other vegetables that do not need too much room. |