Evening star., 1943-06-07
Silver Spring Garden,
Show Battle Against
Weeds Is Being Won
"a Productive Acres
Near Perfection, With
Streets Marked

The battle against the weeds is
/ being won at Silver Springs big 300
plot community garden on the right
side of Georgia avenue extension
, about a mile and one-half beyond
the District line.
There is hardly weed left on the
"a acres divided into 50-by-5O foot
plots Nowhere in his tour about the
metropolitan area did The Star re-
porter see such gardens
At the Silver Spring tract its just
bad form to harbor weeds. Neighbors
would talk about it. A weedy gar
den would stand out like a sore
thumb among the rows of neatly
raked plots with their straight rows
of peas and corn and leaf vegetables
and the cut saplings, arranged like
the poles of an Indians tepee, for
the lima beans to climb on
Silver Spring is going to have a
garden prize contest of its own. with
500 War bond for the best garden.
But these gardens approached per-
fectlon long before contest was
mentioned. Considering that most
of the gardeners are beginners work.
ing with book in one hand-it is a
remarkab BILE achievement.
Leader for Each 16 Gardens.
1t was done by having a garden
leader, an experienced gardener. in
every square of Is gardens A COM
munity spirit of keeping up appear
ances soon manifest itself along
Bean boulevard, Pepper place. To-
mato terrace and Radish road. as
the streets there are designated by
neat signs. Just as lawns are
moved and hedges clipped in first
class suburban communities. rows
were straight. hills of potatoes uni
form and spaces between rows neat
/ ly raked throughout the area.
Roy Amick. 6 feet 3. bronzed as an
/ Indian and with a touch of gray in
his outstanding shock of hair, was on
hand yesterday to show the gar
dens. Mr.. Amick is paper sales
man and lives at 609 Dale drive
/ Silver Spring. Having some time on
his hands in the early spring. he
volunteered to supervise the plow-
men employed by the county to pre-
pare Victory gardens free of charge
You'll notice my garden is a
little behind" he said. For a time
/ was like real estate salesman
selling lots in development
Mr.. Amick's 12-year-old daughter
Barbara, named the streets.
Right Seed-Wrong Plot.
He pointed to beautiful patch o1
potato plants in blossom. "You
know" he said, the gardener who
had that plot was surprised at find
ing cut potatoes in the grounc
where he started to plant. 1t seems
that another gardener mistook the
plot for his own and put it all ir
potatoes. He was mad when he
discovered his potatoes we're par.
TALLY dug up-threatened to sue;
wouldn't trade plots. So I showed
him his plot myself the next time
He came back a few nights later
and began planting potatoes in an
other wrong plot"
The battle against the insects is
being won. too. Every leaf is pow
dered with an nsecticiude-an1
holes are being filled with cyanide
death to all bugs.
William G. Fox, in the defense
plant stepup of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. asked about the prize
contest. He had one of The Star.
entry coupons in his pocket. The
gardening had been a wonderful
experience. he said. He was slim.
mer by 2 inches around the wait
but had lost no weight. He used tt
drive his car to work and pay Al