i like some pumpkin pie supper is ready we could discuss the garden at the table during the past few days balan betsy have been making a plan for their garden books and bulletins on gardening from their school library father likes the plan but the soil must be dr before betsy and bill can start the garden mr allen tests the s all are ready to buy seeds they are eager to start planting they can buy their seeds at the local store they want seed that will grow well and they will produce large and good vegetables betsy chooses carefully bill checks over the garden plants onions two are on the list a handful of onion steps is all that they w to have a good harvest one must plant good seeds and must also use the a fertilizer has elements in it which green plants use in making their food the fertilizer must be mixed with the saw al in this rich loose soil plant roots will now find plenty of nourishment the seeds are planted in straight and even rows bill stretches a card across the garden to guide him with a corner of the whole bill makes a shallow for all across the south end of the garden ready seeds will go in this first each of these tiny seeds has food stored in it the baby plant will you this food in getting it start in life they will plants the ready seeds very close together from each healthy seed will come one young ready's plant bats a covering of the seeds lightly with soil they will now germinate then grow if they have enough moisture and warm it's a few weeks later and time to set out the tomatoes and to plant the potatoes the potatoes themselves are cut and the pieces planted mother shows bill how to cut the potatoes  eye on each piece weeds also thrive in the rich soil of the garden they must be destroyed otherwise they will rob the vegetables of nourishment and needed sunlight proudly give his mother the first harvest from the garden it has meant much work but it's worth it six weeks have passed since the garden was started the bins are beginning to grow into vines they will twine about these polls and climb up high and then the plants can get more sunlight the potato plants have a good start and are in bloom but but they don't beetles have appeared and are eating some of the leaves if the leaves are destroyed there will be no potatoes but what are these tomato worms and big ones bill decided that he not the caterpillars will win this time but the pumpkin vines cause no trouble they are now in bloom and soon little pumpkins will form the corn tassel and silk stamens infest those are parts of the flower as the sun shines on the green leaves they make food for obvious now the crops need water rain rain it soaks into the saw the spreading roots of the garden plants will take in the water rain rain don't go away the gardeners say the rain saves bill from watering the garden in ten more days the corn the potatoes and the onion can be harvested this is a good time for bill to work on his account b bill think his potatoes will pay after all he sprayed them in time and the beatles did only a little damage with a potato fork he digs enough to last the allen family a few days the vines have begun to turn brown which means that the potatoes are about as big as they will get to be firm but they those called to berries have formed at the end of the underground stems of the potatoes the current is ready for roasting these ears are really have decided to let some of the choices ripen on the stock for seed next year and to exhibit some of the state fair now you understand why they pilgrims had a thanksgiving face after th