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TECHNICAL INFORMATION FOR THE
VICTORY GARDENER TECHNICAL INFORMATION IN GENERAL
All citizens who are interested in producing food for home use, whether
as individual families, in community gardens, or as part of industrial
garden projects are urged to take advantage of general technical
information as well as timely, particular reminders and recommendations,
which are available either through county, local, or company Victory
Garden Committees, or directly from the County Agent or Agricultural
Extension Representative, the County Home Economics Extension
Representative, or the Agricultural Extension Service at the state
college or university.
Precise information is available at all times from these sources, on best
adapted varieties, sources of vegetable seeds or plants, plant growing
methods, choice of site and soil when such is possible, soil preparation
for planting, liming, manuring, fertilization, irrigation, seed sowing,
transplanting, planting dates, probable yields of different kinds,
season of maturity, planting plans, rotations, tillage methods, special
cultural methods for each vegetable, insect and disease identification
and control, proper maturity for harvesting, harvesting methods,
storage, freezing, canning and drying methods, recipes for preparing,
and nutritive value of the different kinds of vegetables. In addition,
special bulletins and news letters are issued by the agencies named from
time to time or when occasion demands, on such timely subjects as
protection against insect pests or diseases which threaten to be
specially destructive.
To be sure of obtaining such timely information, the Victory gardener
should consult his local Victory Garden Committee, should visit the
garden center if one has been set up conveniently, or should request his
committee to establish it if none is accessible, and should register his
name and address with his Victory Garden Committee. Reference will be
made later to Victory Garden registration, but for the present it should
be emphasized that such enrollment implies no obligation on the part of
the Victory gardener but simply enables his Victory Garden Committee to
make its services more readily available to him, besides providing a
census of war home gardening. CHOOSING VARIETIES AND
OBTAINING SEEDS AND PLANTS The choice of
varieties is dictated to some extent by personal preferences, but to a
considerably greater degree by the adaptation of the different varieties
to local conditions. For this reason, information from local, reliable
sources in many instances is preferable to that from more distant
agencies. In a few kinds, certain varieties of high edible quality
though of greater perishability may be preferred for home culture, above
the more durable varieties required for distribution through commercial
channels. There is known to be some variation in vitamin content among
different varieties, but as yet the information on this point is not
sufficient to provide a basis for choice in any kind except possibly the
tomato, of which the well-known earlier varieties are lower in vitamin C
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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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