The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 12

Homeowners Combat Inflation by Cultivating Vegetable Cardens BACKYARD FARMERS -With the cost of food these days constantly rising, more and more people are cultivating backyard gardens, both as a diversion providing exercise and leisure enjoyment as well as a means of combating inflation. Picture above shows Sebastian Colatosti, 36 E. Race Stowe, using a harrow to break up crusts of dirt: (top right) 18-vear-old Larry Poncheri, 604 E. Race Stowe, weeding the family vegetable garden; (right) Louis Vanore, 550 E. Race Stowe, fastening tomato vines to sticks in the ground; (far right) Colatosti smiling through a patch of string beans: tbelow) Vanore at work with a hoe, and (bottom right) Colatosti still pushing that harrow..