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Show I Work Gardens Early For Best Results To get the most irom early vegetable crops, gardeners need to be ready to spade as soon as the ground is workable, according to victory garden advisors of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and USAC Extension Service. Planted early enough, such spring vegetables as radishes, lettuce, beet greens and other early greens, onions and also peas, if the garden is large enough will give profitable returns. re-turns. However, if the planting is late so that warm weather arrives ar-rives before they have much of a chance, they are hardly worth planting in many garden areas. No definite date can be given for gardeners to start working the soil. Between the southern and northern parts of the country, coun-try, the ground may be ready to work anywhere between February Febru-ary and May. Late March and early April will prove advisable for planting in Utah. The tried and true method of testing the soil is the "gardener's "garden-er's squeeze". Take up a handful of soil, squeeze it, then open the fingers. . If the soil has packed and the imprint of the fingers remains, it is too wet to work. If it crumbles, the date for digging has arrived. |