Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . Fig. 163.—Strawberries in narrow hedge-rows three feet apart. The straw mulch savesmoisture in the soil, keeps the berries clean, and keeps down the weeds. moisture and makes picking more agreeable. After the crop is allgathered, the vines are mowed down, raked off with the mulchand put into the compost heap. FERTILIZING 237 Two kinds of mulching material, corn stalks and straw, areshown in figures 165 and 166. Cultivation of Strawberries.—The plants respond readily tothorough cultivation. The more tillage g
Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . Fig. 163.—Strawberries in narrow hedge-rows three feet apart. The straw mulch savesmoisture in the soil, keeps the berries clean, and keeps down the weeds. moisture and makes picking more agreeable. After the crop is allgathered, the vines are mowed down, raked off with the mulchand put into the compost heap. FERTILIZING 237 Two kinds of mulching material, corn stalks and straw, areshown in figures 165 and 166. Cultivation of Strawberries.—The plants respond readily tothorough cultivation. The more tillage given to the patch, thebetter the plants will grow and the larger will be the yield. Culti-vation in the matted-row is very limited and does not come close toany plant but at the edges of the rows. The soil is apt to becomehard and baked as the strawberry takes its moisture from the regions where grass tends to grow, considerable handwork andhoe work may be necessary. Clean cultivation with no weeds andgrass should be the Fig. Itj4.—Strawberries grown according to the hill-row system. The plants in rows in twodirections allow of cultivation on all sides of each plant. Cultivation takes place after har-vest when the mulch is removed. (Indiana Station.) Fertilizing.—The strawberry plant may be said to be a ravenousfeeder. It requires a great deal of nourishment and will respond toheavy feeding. The best form of plant food is supplied by addingbarnyard manure. Some soils can be fertilized as heavy as twentytons of barnyard manure to the acre for the strawberry crop. A good plan for applying barnyard manure is to plow it under attwo different times before setting the plants. Apply one-half themanure, turn it under, then apply the remainder and turn thatunder by plowing crosswise of the first plowing. This will incor-porate the manure in the soil well. \ If commercial fertilizers are used, bone meal and tankage aregood forms. Many growers give an application of
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