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Show H Late Season H Garden Points IF jou nrc in any doubt about whal you can plnut with hopes of success &g in your gniden at this late hour write mj to tho Emergency Food Garden Couunis-& Couunis-& sion, No. 1210 Mao land Building, Wnsh-BBi Wnsh-BBi togtoii, D. C. The commission will send (! you free the garden primer and any other information thntjyou may wish. It jt I will give you the same service in regard I to canning. The commission recommends that navy beans be planted on a light soil or on meadow or blue grass that is to be put under cultivation. They may be planted as late as the middle of this month. Late potatoes may be planted up to July 1 if the seed bed is 111 good shape and the seed sound. Sweet potatoes 03.11 lie grown with success on sandy land. Sweet corn of short season v.iiiety may be planted up to July ," or even a little later Late cabbage may be set as late as July 1. String beans may be planted as late as July la. At. late as July 1 cucumbers may be planted. Good tomato plants of tho short season variety va-riety may be planted any tune in June. Squashes and pumpkins mnv hp planted in June among sweet or field corn or, if room, separately m hills auoui e.,...-tenths e.,...-tenths of a foot apart. Lettuce grow., best if planted in enily spring or fall. Late or winter radishes may be sown early in August Table beets to be pickled, canned or stored for winter use may be planted in June In the cultivation of beans tho general rules for the care- of garden crops should be adhered to and frequent shallow stirring stir-ring of the boil practised. For a constant con-stant supply of bunch or snap beans successive suc-cessive plantings should be made, the final planting being made about eight weeks before time for frost in the autumn. For tho production of bunch dry beans, such as red kidney, white kidney kid-ney or white marrow, plantings may be made almost any time during the first half of the summer. This class of bean is generally planted as late as possible pos-sible to have the crop ripen just before early fiost in the aulumu. Bunch beans usually aie planted in rows thirty inches apart and the plants allowed to stand singly three or four inches apart, or they are planted in hills of three to five plants each, twelve to fifteen inches apart. Good results may be obtained from planting kidney or marrow beans in the cornfield alongside the hills after the corn has been cultivated once or twice. ' Polo beans require a somewhat richer soil than the bunch type and should bo planted in hills 3 by 4 or 4 by 4 feet, and. as the name implies they require a pole or some similar support Plant the t seed during the early summer. Several varieties of climbing bean may be planted i In the cornfield and allowed to climb f upon the hills of corn. The old fash- ioned corn bean belongs' to this type. i 1 j t W Upper Cut Tomatoes trained to trellises and small YeSctablee between. Pboto by dc Stefano. Lower Cut Miss Jackie Saunders Saun-ders dons overalls for garden work. The Lima bean, both pole and bush, forms one of the most dcsiiable products of tho gardcu. This crop tin ires best when the soil is quite rich; in fact, good Lima beans cannot be grown in poor soil. They should not be planted until the soil becomes thoroughly waiin. Place the seed in hills, eight or ten to the'hill, and after the plants become established thin to four or five. Tho hills should be four or five feet apart for the pole varieties and two or three feet apart for the dwarf or bnnch varieties. It is u good idea to make up the hill with a little lit-tle additional manuro well mixed with the soil. Cover the beans about one and one-half inches, placing them with the ojc downward. When planting ibeans of any kind, the seed should not be covered to a greater depth than two inches when the soil is moderntely dry. and if the soij is wet the covering should be very slight. Sd&& uf. MM4QMmJf 4!fM |