. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. )5S BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. XLV. plan, and this border may be kept for the smaller vegetables, pot-herbs, &c., leaving the middle of the plot for the larger crops; next to the border make a walk all round of two feet six inches ; then divide the middle into beds as shown in the plan. " The first thing necessary is to drain the ground ; witliout draining, un- less the soil is very liglit indeed, your garden will never prosper. The stagnant water in the winter, autumn, and spri
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. )5S BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. XLV. plan, and this border may be kept for the smaller vegetables, pot-herbs, &c., leaving the middle of the plot for the larger crops; next to the border make a walk all round of two feet six inches ; then divide the middle into beds as shown in the plan. " The first thing necessary is to drain the ground ; witliout draining, un- less the soil is very liglit indeed, your garden will never prosper. The stagnant water in the winter, autumn, and spriug, rots the roots of plants, and kills the seeds, and the soil is rendered less fertile by the constantly soaking 'wet. Cut some drains slanting across the ground into a ditch on the outside, if there is one, and fill up part of the drains with bushes and loose stones ; but, if there is no ditch, dig out the walk ])retty deep and fill in the bottom witli stones, broken bricks, and dry rubbish and bushes. This draining is one of the main points; and next to draining comes trenching —and trenching deeplv. Nothing improves ground so much as working it; begin by trenching (if the soil admits of it) three spits deep. This, how- ever, cannot of course be all done in one year, as it would take too much time, but it may be done by degrees : after it has been trenched three spits for one crop, then a simple digging will be enough for the second crop, and for the third a digging of two spits will, for the three crops, always give a fresh surface, which is a matter of great importance in growing fine vege- tables; draining and trenching are of more consequence even than manure, as those will find who try the experiment. " Of course manure is not to be neglected when it can be got, and it may be procured from many sources which are not sufficiently attended to; wood ashes will do sometliing ; the rotten leaves, stalks, &c., not eaten by the pig, are excellent manure. Soap-water
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