818-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 22, 1995
All Gardens
Great & Small
York Co,
Horticultural Agent
Tom Becker
This is the third in a series of
articles on WWII Victory
Gardens.
For victory garden planting and
seed starting suggestions, contact
the Extension office. For a limited
time a packet of gardening guides
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April 28-29, at Calvary
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Thursday, April 27.
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speakers, John and Eli
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iepy. National Literary
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mer director of Judson
Press and now executive
director of The Ameri
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and representatives and
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ian publishers will be
available for advice and
interviews.
For brochures and
further information.
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siastically planted from 1943 to
1946. Victory gardens in 1945
supplied more than a third of all
vegetables consumed in the United
States. Officials at all levels of
government explained the need for
gardening as a source of food.
Today, backyard gardens supply
only a fraction of what we can con
sume of vegetables. In many gar
dens only specialty vegetables par
ticular family favorites are grown
like sweet com, salsify or Chinese
cabbage.
Each vegetable type requires a
different amount of space. Crops
requiring added space include
peas, sweet com, snap beans, and
muskmelons. The same garden
vegetables challenge us today as
SO years ago.
Muskmelons, watermelon, cel
ery, cauliflower, brussel sprouts,
eggplant and potatoes are risky for
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Many of the crops grown for
winter storage are particularly
easy. Why not try carrots, beets,
rutabagas, kohlrabi, turnips, sal
sify, danish cabbage, red cabbage,
and Chinese cabbage.
Locate your victory vegetable
garden to allow a minimum of six
hours of direct morning and after
noon sun. Keep away from large
trees especially black walnut and
butternut trees. Both these trees
produce a toxin known as
“Juglone.” When present in the
soil, affected plants frequently
wilt, turn yellow and eventually
die.
Vegetables sensitive to the toxin
include tomato, potato, pea, cab
bage, muskmelon, and others.
Many ornamental plants and fruit
trees are also sensitive including
apple, pear, sour cherry, red pine,
white pine and Rhododendron.
Remember that buildings and
fences cast shadows and provide
unwanted shade. Plant climbers
like beans to the north, short crops
to the south. Bring in topsoil or
compost if poor garden soil condi
tions exist
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