In the Garden Surplus produce still seems to be many
peoples' problems. Nobody wants the beans, the cabbages and the vegetable marrows they them- selves can't eat. Many people, urged for the first time in their lira to grow more food, are slightly embarrassed by the food they haw grown. I recently visited a garden where the two owners had bees prodigal in their achievements. They had grown enough carroa potatoes, beans, turnips and the rest to feed ten or more peoPle, and now do not know what to do with them. Yet in March, Aptg and May of next year it is highly probable they will be short of fob vegetables. If the garden doesn't show now, in September, a sac • cession of growing crops for the next eight months then its plana114 has been inadequate. One of the solutions for surplus is planning' because with good planning there is no surplus. It has been 54- gested, however, that the countryside is self-supporting in the mans of vegetables, and that organisation of town-supplies might to ta0
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