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. With each new spring, more and more people react to the lure of colorful seed catalogs and the shock of spiraling food prices by spading up a garden patch and taking their chances with the whims of nature, marauding insects and soil of dubious fertility. This summer an estimated thirty-five million family vegetable plots are busy producing a variety of crops ranging from the common to the exotic, with an equally wide range of quality. Many H&S families have already found that gardening is fun and have encouraged their friends to give it a try. Each spring manager Dean DuCray of the Executive Office Research Department grows his own special blight-resistant tomato plants and makes them available to his fellow accountants who annually till the soil of New Jersey, with results that have jestingly been described as ranging from gourmet to garbage. Gardening can and should be fun. But it is more fun if it is done right, and this is where a little advance planning and preparation can pay off in high yield and superb flavor. Don't expect a big dollar saving, particularly for the first year. The average home garden will save a family only about $75 during the season (if you don't count labor), but the savings can be much higher if m crops are frozen or stored for use through the winter. The urge to garden afflicts most people about the •pl-^f same time as the annual attack of spring fever. The better gardens, however, are begun in the summer and B fall, with the mulching of grass clippings, leaves, cobs, rinds and other foliage and the preparation of a compost bed. A compost bed in an out-of-the-way corner of your property is an easy and inexpensive way to upgrade the soil quality to support the high-yield home garden year after year. The mulch bed or compost pile is simply alternate layers of several inches of organic matter with a light dusting of lime and either manure or a handful of high-nitrogen fertilizer, needed to feed the bacteria that decompose the organic matter. A mulching attachment which blocks the outlet chute of your power lawnmower permits the chopping of huge quantities of leaves into fingernail-size pieces which compact well, stay moist and will not blow away. Nail some wide boards together to keep the pile in place. As the layers of the bed build up, the top should be dished in slightly and holes made in the pile with a rake handle to collect rain and keep the compost wet. As the organic matter decomposes, the temperature inside the pile can reach 150 degrees or
Object Description
Title |
How does your vegetable garden grow? |
Author |
Anonymous |
Contributor |
Bozo, Frank |
Subject |
Vegetable gardening |
Personal Name |
DuCray, Dean |
Office/Department |
Haskins & Sells. Executive Office |
Citation |
H&S Reports, Vol. 12, (1975 summer), p. 20-25 |
Date-Issued | 1975 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte: Illustrations by Frank Bozo |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | HSReports_1975_Summer-p20-25 |