Mother helps with most everything. Holder says the only honest way to get a mess of pieces to work for. Buther bill is in the army, nick, 14 years old, takes his place. This is james, just 16. Dad always kept heads, buts in their the garden plans needed to be on paper, so with the advice of the county agent, they will study federal bulletins that were written to serve as guides. This littleee on model of their quarteracre garden, the plan that worked out. Fouris the early garden, rows of potatoes, two double rows of peas, early, medium mentally. One row of cabbage. Beets,e row of carrots, one row of greens, spinach, mustard and chard. Tomatoes early and late, drought resistant. Radishes, lettuce and onions, asparagus and rhubarb heads at the side. Beans, three rows. Sweetcorn along the fence and finally, two rows of lima beans complete the early garden. Now for the late garden. After each of the early crops is harvested, planting of another crop is to be made to have a succession. In the illustration, all the early crops except tomatoes and chard are removed from the model. Of beans, two rows of squash along the fence, three rows of late potatoes, make cabbage, carrots and beets, i have to double row of each, three rows of turnips, a row of collard, halfand a row of each, completing the late garden. Here they have a garden plan that will serve the family they share and within and in succeeding years they will want to rotate crops. Now for the real garden. When the maples are in bloom it is time to begin planting. When the moisture is just right, the soil wont all or be sticky, holding its shape when pressed but crumbling easily when broken. It is ripe for planting. This has good soil and drainage and is well fenced. It was maneuverr it was manured and planted last fall and is now ready to plant. Seatpa knows how to cut potatoes, goodsized chucky pieces about the size of a hens egg, each with at least one eye. Potato rows are three feet apart, four inches deep. Amercial for delayed or commercial fertilizer is spread on the soil and mixed before planting. It is evenly spaced about one foot apart. Covering may be done with flour whole plow or hoe. Peas,ning for rows for stakes are used to place them in double rows three feet apart. The treatment of peace and other vegetable seat peas and other Vegetable Seeds helps prevent seat run and other plague. Each seed is coated. Young cabbage and tomato plants are coming along well in the cold. Being hearty, cabbage is planted. And plants the root eat presses the soil around them. If the ground is dry, he puts a little water into each hole before covering. The holders have best result with plants grown the previous year, although they could use seedlings or seeds. The handle of the hoe is used make for rows for small lettuce. James shakes the seeds out evenly, but not too quickly. Are also planted about a halfinch deep. These seeds, larger, our planted one inch deep one inch apart. The young plants are four inches apart. Vegetables selected that are grown easily, good yield, and can be canned or stored for winter use. Plum trees are in bloom. Time to plant sweet corn. This cross is resistant to disease. Almost summer now, and the garden is coming along, a garden that will furnish plenty of nutritious, vitaminbacked vegetables for the family table vitaminpacked vegetables for the family table. That is, if they ever reached the table. The paper still keeps the maggots away from the cabbage. Tomatoes are part of every victory garden, and lots of them. The plants are set up when the danger of frost is over. Byy are protected from worms paper collars, fastened at the top with a paperclip or pin. By pulling the soil around them. A few peppers are desirable. The holders started these hot weather plants seven weeks ago in the kitchen window. Lima beans are planted two to the hill, 1. 5 inches deep. They complete the early garden planting. Thinning. Ables need dick uses a garden hoe for the rough part and finishing is done by hand. Chard is being planted six inches to eight inches apart. The only way to get reads out of a row of carrots is by hand, right now when they are small. Pig weed is a common, fast growing weed. Is land quarter. They would quickly crowd out vegetables. Carrots is a pain in the back, but these young folks have keen eyes and nimble fingers. And as grandpa says, there is no tool that gets them all, but the panzer hoe makes them easier between the rows. Careful, not too close or too deep, you might cut the outer root. A horse cultivator may do the job much faster. This implement has attachments that will plant seeds of almost any side, in rows or on hills. Work,e pests go to beetles, bugs. Justaid gardening was wasnt exercise . Here is the first test, the common cabbage worm eating holes in the newest cabbage leaves. Is on good gardener, dick the job to protect the crop from these tests and diseases. Worms mama, the fall butterfly, lays its eggs on the leaves. Dust has been made scare by the war, so cryolight is used. Does a good job with it. With theage is sick yellows, or willed. Once a fungus that causes the wealth gets into the soil, it takes years to get rid of it. Next time it will use varieties like jersey queen or marian market. The easy way to controll insects is to attack them before they become too numerous. Leavesetles eat potato and arsenic as a remedy for insects on leaf tate rose. Dickke 2. 5 gallons, dissolves water with hydrated lime. This is put into a pail, stirred, and the bordeaux mixture is made. To this is that it two of calcium arsenate to kill potato bugs and other insects. Easy, is it the . Sprayux was also a good for grapes, tomatoes and roses. Sprays potatoes with bordeaux about once every two weeks. Late potatoes need more springs than early ones. Are ready,s excellent source of vitamin c. Readytoeat, another excellent source of vitamin c, especially raw. It should be groaning every victory garden. A solid, fourpound head good for kraut. Cabbage is available in the garden over a long period. In vitamin dich needed for night vision and building up resistance to disease. Luscious raspberries are ripenings. Those delicious, small fruits should be in every victory garden. Oh, pesky bugs again, this time the mexican beetle. A complete generation can occur in 35 days. Cryolight dust is a remedy. The beatles feed on the others of the leaves, so dick makes sure to reach them with the dusts. One of the most common failures of lima and other beings is bacterial blight. This disease is carried with a seed. Western grown seed from reliable friends is recommended. Tomatoes are troubled by wilt caused by a fungus that lives in the soil and attacks through the root, getting into the shaft carrying tubes and shutting off the water supply. The plants die. This blackened, bloody tissue is a sign of wilt. Only resistant varieties should be grown on wiltinfested land. The process does not damage seriously resistant varieties like pan america. Affectsr disease eggplant. Note the darkened tissue in the cut stem. The remedy is rotation of crops. The clean, white appearance of this stem indicates a healthy plant. Is the pesky corny or warm, hatching in the silk. A mixture of White Mineral Oil and pyrethrum helps to control them. Corn enemy attacks all parts of the plant. It does not lower yields much, but it is damaging. Leaf blight also affects corn. Sprays do not control these diseases, but resistant varieties of court are being developed. Downy mildew is one of several leaf diseases that interfere production of several crops. Note is anthrax nos, decreasing yields and reducing the quality of fruit. Bordeaux is used. Stop. Est is difficult to zinnias are in bloom. The crops are beginning to come out, the last of the early irish cobblers. Helped to make a good yield, goodquality quality as well, free from scabs and uniform. The nutritional value of tss from the tops, so it is wise to use them young, when the tops are edible. Perhaps the numberone garden crop that keeps ripening over a long time and is an important source of vitamin c. When properly cooked or canned, there is not much loss of this vitamin. Tomatoes are easily canned. Quarts per person should be put up. Corn tops against the sky. Containarieties of corn vitamin a, as well as starch and sugar. Green peppers, rich in vitamins c and a. Cole beans to use, dried or canned, and swiss chard can be used throughout the summer. The holder garden has plenty of green, leafy vegetables, mustard greens, spinach, collards, all fine for winter and fall use. That just about covers the older victory garden. Garden, justtory one of thousands of home farm gardens. Just a sample of what you can ingine in any community america. Each a vitamin from which you can take stuff more precious than silver or gold. But remember what grandpa says, no work, no guard. Get what that means. No work, no spots. Turnips, no tank, no flying fortress, no victory. Your that in mind, all victory gardeners, and work for victory. You are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming america on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter at cspan three history for information on our schedule and to keep up with history news. Texas and m university is home to the george w. Bush president ial library and museum. Familys look at the personal collection as well as objects from the president s memorial service. Hail to the chief being ]layed