. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . ing a hand hose is used, wet the ground thoroughly by letting the sprayrise in the air and fall in a fine shower. To produce a similar resulthold the sprinkling can as high as possible. What is cultivation .^ Why do we do it and what does it accom-pHsh ? We cultivate to keep down weeds that might rob the growing 18S GARDEN GUIDE crop of sunlight, air and nourishment; to conserve the moisture i
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . ing a hand hose is used, wet the ground thoroughly by letting the sprayrise in the air and fall in a fine shower. To produce a similar resulthold the sprinkling can as high as possible. What is cultivation .^ Why do we do it and what does it accom-pHsh ? We cultivate to keep down weeds that might rob the growing 18S GARDEN GUIDE crop of sunlight, air and nourishment; to conserve the moisture in thesoil; to keep the soil open and aerated, and to pulverize the soil orbreak up its particles and thus assist the chemical and bacteriologicalchanges in the soil. Cultivation brings these results. It also createswhat is called a soil mulch, i. e., a layer of dry soil on the surfacewhich checks the loss of moisture from the lower layers to the surfacewhere it evaporates rapidly. The cultivation work required on any crop will depend largely onwhether or not you get the first hoeing and weeding done just as soonas it is possible to do it, or let it go for a few days or a week A vegetable garden for supplying a large household. Here, as in the smaller gardensdepicted on other pages, cleanliness and careful cultivation are pre-eminent. Ob-serve the handsome pergola around the exterior Within a week or ten days the soil between the rows will have begun toform a crust again, and new crop of weed seedlings may have means another hoeing promptly. We do not think that it is anyexaggeration to say that eighty per cent, of the work in taking care ofgardens is due to the fact that these hoeings and hand weedings areallowed to go for several days after they should have been attended tedious task of hand weeding may be lessened considerably byusing one of the small hand weeders. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 183 Cultivation should be kept up frequently enough to maintai
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