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Victory Gardens Handbook page 50


 

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  Table of basic information for planning victory garden

(1) Allow 6 inches from edge of garden for vegetables requiring small space; 12 to 18 inches for larger kinds.

(2) Other varieties may be satisfactory; ask your local Victory Garden Committee Chairman if preferred varieties are not available.

(3) Average planting date for Central Pennsylvania; for southeastern sections, planting time may be 1 to 2 weeks earlier for first planting.

(4) Depends upon size at harvest.

 

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Victory Gardens
Handbook of the
Victory Garden Committee
War Services, Pennsylvania
State Council of Defense

April, 1944

TABLE OF CONTENTS

page v
page vi
page vii

 

 

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