. Yard and garden; a book of practical information for the amateur gardener in city, town or suburb. Floriculture. 112 YAED AND GAEDEN available food for the ^' plants and tender rootlets. Nature herself, it will be observed, never turns the soil upside down. But in spad- ing up old beds, where it is only necessary to break the ground and pulverize the soil, it may seem impractical to keep the surface soil on the. Sweet Peas surface. It is easily enough accomplished, however, if the old bed was properly prepared in the beginning. Simply insert the spade to the required depth and twist it
. Yard and garden; a book of practical information for the amateur gardener in city, town or suburb. Floriculture. 112 YAED AND GAEDEN available food for the ^' plants and tender rootlets. Nature herself, it will be observed, never turns the soil upside down. But in spad- ing up old beds, where it is only necessary to break the ground and pulverize the soil, it may seem impractical to keep the surface soil on the. Sweet Peas surface. It is easily enough accomplished, however, if the old bed was properly prepared in the beginning. Simply insert the spade to the required depth and twist it from side to side, loosening the soil without turning it un- der. But no matter what particular process you. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baker, Tarkington, 1878-. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
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