. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 120—How to Make the Garden Pay. have often used (or given to my weeders) common fron spoons, broken case knives properly ground to an edge on both sides and bent in the shape of a curve, etc. In fact, any small sharp-edged tool can be utilized as a hand-weeder, and in very mellow soil the fingers alone will do very well. The process of hand-weeding, of course, has to be repeated as often as weeds re-appear, and if the first weeding was thoroughly done, the subsequent ones do not require so very much time and pains-taking labor. But every wee
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 120—How to Make the Garden Pay. have often used (or given to my weeders) common fron spoons, broken case knives properly ground to an edge on both sides and bent in the shape of a curve, etc. In fact, any small sharp-edged tool can be utilized as a hand-weeder, and in very mellow soil the fingers alone will do very well. The process of hand-weeding, of course, has to be repeated as often as weeds re-appear, and if the first weeding was thoroughly done, the subsequent ones do not require so very much time and pains-taking labor. But every weed must be removed; they are no blessing in any sense, and only deprive the crop of moisture (which feature is their worst) and of food. Many of the annual weeds become very persistent in their efforts toward seed ripening in latter part of summer and early fall. They should not be allowed much rest; for if you give them an inch they will be sure to take an ell. CHAPTER XXIV. THINNING AND TRANSPLANTING. "crowded—CRIPPLED ! »t. HE liberal use of seed gives us the desirable full stand; but also the less desirable feature of a great surplus of plants. Every plant, not required for making the crop, is practically a weed, as it deprives those that are to remain of moisture, food and room. To remove the superfluous, useless eaters and drinkers at an early period of development is just as essential as the early removal of weeds. Uniformity of vegetables-radishes, beets, onions, etc.,—and an even development cannot well be obtained except by giving each plant in the row a uniform and reasonably large amount of space. The annexed figures illustrate the contrast between a section of rows where the crop (onions) was thinned at an early stage of growth, and one where thinning is neglected. The market gardener whose aim is in the direction of an early crop—of beets, radishes, etc., which he can gather all at once, clearing the rows as \ he goes along, and thus having them ready
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