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Show TIPS u ijardeners GARDENS OF QUALITY TpHERE have been changes in -1 recent years in garden practices prac-tices that are worth reporting. Gardeners formerly allowed vegetables vege-tables to grow as large as possible. This procedure gave a higher yield in pounds, but very often it lowered the quality of vegetables. Some vegetables, of course, like tomato, must be mature to be palatable; pal-atable; but carrots, cucumbers, beets, summer squash, turnips, radishes, and others are more tender ten-der and tasty when not much more than half grown. Gardeners are finding that it is wise to plant oftener than once or twice a year, to maintain a regular regu-lar supply of proper-sized vegetables. vege-tables. Gardens prove more enjoyable, en-joyable, and more profitable when successive plantings of favorite crops are made every two or three weeks, providing garden-fresh vegetables for the table over a long season. It is also true that few gardeners garden-ers today save flower seeds. Fine flowers growing in the home garden gar-den often are cross-pollinated by others of the same species, making mak-ing flowers grown from their seed inferior, and untrue. |