The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 103

This Week in Your Victory Garden 3 rows Tomatoes 1 row Earliana voriety and 2 rows Beefsteak variety 3 rows of white seeded Kentucky Wonder string beans One row Early Wonder table beets PflUU. IIOUJRnD'S Weekly Plant-fl-Log A feature appearing each Sunday in the Times, on Page 3, Part I It takes the place of our annual catalog, which, to conserve man power and materials we have discontinued for the duration. Follow it for up-to-the-minute gardening offers. Note the new location of this Plant-A-Log. Page 3, Part Every Sunday in the Times.

OPEN EVERY DAY ftirf it fling SIMIAY Paul J. Howard's CALIFORNIA 'FLOWERLAND 11700 National BUtl. Los Angles Telephones; Ashley 42951 AM zona 3U7I i 2 rows Swiss One row Summer Squash 1 i 36" 30" 1 24" 30" 45" 54" 54" Tl 54" 30 "(SEEM ARM'S NEW HiAVY-YICLDING Plant the last row of beans this week. Set out your tomato plants about four feet apart in the rows and put up a trellis. Continue using the trimmings of lettuce, beets and Swiss chard for salads BY ROSS H.

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FREE Planting Guide for Spring (jERJMAIh SEEDS Germinate! in advance. So our planting advice must necessarily be on the basis of guesswork as to soil moisture conditions. That's our alibi, anyway. There is plenty of time to catch up, however; one of the many advantages of our model garden is that it can be planted any time right through until Aug. 1, or Aug.

13 in some sections. Last week we suggested that the plants for the last two rows of tomatoes be purchased, this time the beefsteak or Ponderosa variety. Some weeks ago; when we made ready to plant the first row of tomatoes to the Earliana variety, we also spoke of the betfsteak, and received quite a reaction against this sort because it is not wilt resistant and blights easily the last only an opinion. The truth is that any 4 variety of tomato will blight, or at leiist is subject to western blight, which cannot be controlled. There are wilt-resistant kinds, such as Pearson, Pritch-ard, Rutgers and Norton, but the beefsteak is so much superior in flavor for the home garden that there is little TTKUTIES this week in our special JJV six-vegetable war garden will complete its planting; after two more rows of tomatoes and another row of beans' 'go in th nothing left to do but to weed, water, cultivate, chase bugs and eat fresh "garden sass" produced by your own hands (and back.) But there is a "maybe" in this.

It is Incoming apparent that the heavy rainfall this spring has not allowed us to progress with our garden according to schedule. Rains persist and if many readers have had the same soil condition that I have had then they have faced difficulty in getting plantings made and, in the case of beans at least, in getting plants above the surface of the soil. We should perhaps explain that because of the mechanics of publication, this column must be written two weeks comparison. So if you are chary about plant the wilt-resistant sorts. As for me, I would rather have one plant of the beefsteak than a half-dozen of any other.

Set out the plants as described before dig a hole about as deep as the plant is high, set the roots in the bottom, then press a couple of inches of soil around them. Then fill the hole with water several times, over a period of a week so as to establish the plant. After this length of time, you can fill in the hole around the plant and apply subsequent applications of water in a furrow. As we will grow these tomatoes on trellis, set them about four feet apart in the rows. That's pretty close for beefsteak, but we will keep them trained well to the trellis.

The last row of beans also goes in this week. This time, if the rains have let up for a while, plant the seed in the bottom of the furrow, dropping them in hills about 18 inches apart, then drawing about three-fourths of an inch over them with the foot. This old Chinese gardeners' way of planting has been described in ditail in a previous article it is a quick way to get seed planted, particularly adapted to warm weather. You have no doubt been enjoying some salad lettuce from the thinnings of your first planting made late in January (if you are on schedule) and also thinnings from your beets and Swiss chard, for greens. Both should be "humping along," especially with a few days of sunshine, and the Romaine 'should be large enough to keep the kitchen pretty well supplied with salad lettuce.

Do not, hesitate to cut it even if it is not mature; the idea of planting Romaine is that you can eat it at any stage. of maturity, and, if you like, you may plant a little seed right along, in the row that the cuttings are taken from, so that you will have lettuce throughout the season. And when the weather really warms up, don't forget to irrigate regularly every three or four days, with the exception of tomatoes. Weeds like good growing weather, too, and the next few weeks will. see.

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I AGED Once again the Boy Scouts of America are demonstrating that their "good deeds" know no hounds or limitations. VI lien the shortage of food became apparent and with it the need for "millions of Victory gardens all over the country, the Scouts and Cults in rhe Los Angeles Council were among the first organizations to go "all out" for the Times Victory Garden, Club program to raise food for victory. With Milton L. Goldberg, district Scout executive as coordinator, a ppecial group plan was set up whereby Scouts and Cubs enrolled as members in the Times Victory Garden Club, and troops signed up to plow, plant and raise Victory gardens in their neighborhoods. Approximately 7500 of the Scouts in this area plan to raise some 500 Victory gardens.

Many owners of vacant lots are cooperating by permitting the boys to use the land where arrangements for' water are made. 'As an added incentive, the Times Victory Garden Club will award special troop and district prizes trophies and camp scouting equipment for the best gardens and finest crops. Scoutmasters interested in enrolling their toops in this worthwhile competition may secure complete details by calling MAdison 2313 Station 279. It is indeed a tribute to the Boy Scouts of America that in these trying, wartime days they are wasting no time in doing a real war' job on the home front. CAmaLinS in One and Five-Gallon containers ready for your own garden Iteasonably Prleed VALLEY GARDEN SUPPLY CO.

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