. War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables ... Fig. 8—Suggestion for a seed box for startingplants indoors. with tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower,peppers, and eggplant. Any wooden box, shallow and wide,will make an indoor garden. Put 1 inchof gravel or cinders in the bottom fordrainage, and fill to the top with good of plants may be 2 inches apart. Plant 8 or 10 seeds to the inch, keep the soil damp, and set the box in a the plants are an inch high trans-plant them to other seed boxes, spacing plants 2 inches apart. This insures sturdyplants with
. War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables ... Fig. 8—Suggestion for a seed box for startingplants indoors. with tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower,peppers, and eggplant. Any wooden box, shallow and wide,will make an indoor garden. Put 1 inchof gravel or cinders in the bottom fordrainage, and fill to the top with good of plants may be 2 inches apart. Plant 8 or 10 seeds to the inch, keep the soil damp, and set the box in a the plants are an inch high trans-plant them to other seed boxes, spacing plants 2 inches apart. This insures sturdyplants with good root systems. Transplanting. Before transplanting the plants to thegarden set the box outdoors, in mildweather, to harden the plants. Set out eachplant with a ball of the box dirt sticking tothe roots. Thorough watering several hoursbefore transplanting causes the earth tostick as required. If the root system is broken in the re-moval trim away some of the larger leavesof the plants. In moist ground open a hole. Fig. 7—How a tomato plant is transplanted frompot to garden. with trowel or dibble. Make the holelarger than is needed to hold the roots anda little deeper than the roots grew. Placeroots in hole, and, with the hands, pack thesoil firmly around the plant. In dry soilpour a pint of water into each hole beforeinserting plant. Rake some dry earthabout the surface surrounding each plant tohold the moisture. Transplanted plants cannot stand strongsunshine at first and cloudy days or lateafternoon are preferable for bright weather place newspapers overthem for a day or two, making tents of thepapers, in the shape of an inverted V. A homemade paper pot, a round, bot-tomless paper band or a berry box, filledwith soil may be used to produce plants PLANT FIVE MILLION FOOD GARDENS THIS YEAR ii for a hiil of beans, cucumbers, sweet corn,melons or other plants which are startedindoors. In transplanting these plantsmerely remove the bottom, if there is one,a
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