by William Cobbs

Created on: March 23, 2009

It is my belief that ALL things we consume are 'medicinal' in that they have GOOD or BAD effects upon our health. I'd like to expand this title to call it DEPRESSION VICTORY GARDEN and the victory is you over costs and you over your health.

You MUST have a place to put your garden. It does not matter the SIZE excepting the control that it has over how much variety and bulk you can obtain from your garden.

If you only have a small space, saya city back lawn of 50 x 50 feet or so, I would recommend that you grow only spices or small greens to add to your salads, lettuce, etc. etc.

But if you have a larger space, then let's look upon your plan as one to SAVE money and to produce food cheaply that you would otherwise have to pay much money for at the supermarket.

That assumed, pick out your space and arrange to have twenty plots in each row for planting. In other words, let's arrange your green space in twenty by ten rows, with twenty "hills" or planting spaces in each of the ten rows You are probably uprooting an old lawn or such ground, so the FIRST thing you must do is to get the old sod out of the way, and expose the bare ground. That is a formidable operation but must be done. Use a pick, a shovel, and eventually a hoe to get the top 12 inches or so thoroughly worked,

Once it is so worked, make your twenty "hills" about two feet apart, edge from edge, and work the soil at each "hill" into a small mound. Once this is done for the entire plot, you will have 200 such mounds.

Each now shall be fertilized. Do NOT buy the small boxes of fertilizer though they are effective,but a hundred pounds or more of 10-20-40 fertilizer, and work a quarter pound into each of your mounds, working it in with your hands and fingers(in gloves of course).

Wet each mound with the hose briefly, and wait until the next day for seeding.

FIRST ROW: Plant corn in these twenty hills..get Golden Bantam corn in the small packets available at your store for 20-30 cents each. ONE packet should give you enough Golden Bantam grains for twenty hills.

Plant at least five grains to each hill, putting them about six inches down in the center of the hill., tamping over the center with earth. Then wet the hill briefly, not running to 'mud'!

The next row(number 2) plant TOMATOES. Here you go through the same procedure,but put more of the tiny seeds than you did with the corn. You will later drive a stick by each of these mounds for the tomato vines to trail upon. Even better is to buy the tiny plants themselves

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