Show I Tomatoes Important I While the average farmer knows the value of a garden and always sees to it that he has ample garden planted to run his family through the year there are still some men I who glean their living from the soil solI who dont don't bother to plant a garden The aim In gardening at all an is to supply the household with vegetables bles summer bles-summer summer and winter whiter and the farmer who does this is always repaid repaid repaid re re- re- re paid not only with money saved and convenience of having supply Immediately immedIately Imme imme- at hand but also by the di ti e cs nourishing value of processed home foods As family sizes and needs vary as much as individual tastes the garden gar gar- garden garden gar gar- den should be as variable as anything anything anything any any- thing could be Thus a garden becomes becomes becomes be be- comes such an individual matter that the seed list for each must be individually worked out However there is a principle Involved involved involved In in- that is general and that is planning Here is an example The tomato is among the most versatile of vegetables to prepare for the table and returns the most for the garden space occupied So there must be tomatoes Properly handled harvesting may start July 1 I and tomatoes may be had fresh until several weeks after frost or for tor about days At one and one- one half servings a day the fresh tomato tomato to to- mato amount should be about three and one half bushels as a serving for five persons is that needed to can a quart a bushel canning 17 quarts For the remaining days the tomatoes must come from cans and I allowing two servings weekly 70 quarts are needed or five bushels more The total becomes eight and one half bushels or pounds A tended correctly-tended plant yields 10 pounds and 50 plants are needed Of at these 15 should be early Break Brenk ODay and 35 late Rutgers Other crops may be worked out as carefully based on family likes |