Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
LAST CALL FOR GARDEN PLANNING;
PLANTING WILL SOON BE IN ORDER
This Will Be Late Season. but When Activity Starts 1t
Will Be With Rush to Make Up for Lost
Time-How to Plan Gardens
By JOHN BARTRAM

It's almost the last call for garden plan
ming. This, like last year, will be late
season. owing to the severity and pro-
longation of the winter. But spring is
well nigh here. and very soon, in rush
and wink. the vernal mystery will be
consummated. Making gardens will be In
order. 1t Will be time to plant, not plan!
There Is yet time to do the planning, but
get at 1t right away these cool nights. The
governments of city. State and nation are
cailng on every one who can't recruit in
the military and naval forces TO enlist In
the great army of food producers and con-
servators, who will help to win this war
Having decided what is to be planted,
the indoor gardener draws lines symbols
on his outlined plan to indicate the different
crops, inserting the date when each Is to
be planted Where second or third crop
Is to follow in the same row occupy the
same ground, this may be written in red
or other colored ink, which indicates that
II Is to be planted when an earlier crop
is over. In laying out the plan the garden
planner should consider the amount of each
vegetable necessary for a serving for his
family. giving preference to those which are
favorites on tho table
QUANTITIES NEEDED
For a family Of four ten early tomato
plants and twenty late would be enough and
allow plenty for canning.
About the same O., cabbage t!ate and
early) and of caulfower should suffice.
Three paintings of corn. tnirty-foot rows.
the same of peas, two of string beans, two
thirty-foot rows of bush limas and one
of late beets, three eggplants and three
pepper plants should feed family of four
through the summer.
II some are to be canned or stored,
double the rows of beans peas, beets and
| corn. All the tools that are necessary for
indoor gardening, which can be made an
interesting recreation for the whole house,
hold, are a large sheet OF wrapping paper
a ruler and pencil After looking over
the garden and selecting the plot or SOIL
| best suited for your purpose. measure TINS
and outline 1t on paper on a scale or one
fourth or one-eighth-inch to the foot. The
| planner should bear in mind the habits OF
| the plants so as to allow space enough
between the rows for their proper growth
for the interplanting of later crops and Tor
| easy cultivation. The cultivation that is
tillng or working the soil. of course, is
easiest when the rows are one and one-half
| to two feet apart. as this permits the use
| of wheel cultivators.
HABITS OF PLANTS
Plants which make high growth and
cause heavy shade. such corn. okra and
| pole lmas, naturally should not he located
where they will interfere with sun-loving
| small plants. Perennals. such as rhubarb
| and asparagus. which are not cultivated so
| frequently, should not be grown among
| vegetables which call for tiling at short
| intervals.
The planning may be extended also to
| the planting of small fruits. such as cur
| rants raspberries and grapes, and even to
| the location of apple or other fruit trees.
AIMS OF HOME GARDENING
| The aim of the backyard gardener
| should be to raise those vegetables which
| are expensive or in which the flavor or
quality depends Importantly on absolute
| freshness. Peas and string or lima beans