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SUPERVISION OF GARDENING OPERATIONS
Wherever the size of the company garden project warrants it, a
supervisor should be present during all times when gardeners are working
on the plots. General care should be checked frequently, including
planting at proper times, cultivating, weeding, thinning, harvesting,
and particularly the control of diseases and insects.
Every effort should be exerted to prevent pilfering. It may be necessary
to arrange a guard, especially when no employees are present. Committees
of the gardeners may attend to this.
A cover crop, such as rye grass, should be planted in the early fall,
between rows of crops which will remain for the rest of the season,
except where short-season fall crops are grown. The firm preferably
should supply the seed of cover crops, though individual gardeners might
plant it. All land which may be available for gardening in 1945 should
be seeded with the proper cover crop when the 1944 season has ended.
Cucumbers from a Company Victory Garden
Plot
—Photograph by B. P. Hess, Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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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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