. Vegetable gardening . Vegetable gardening; Project method in teaching. TRANSPLANTING 145 plants may be set as rapidly by this device as by any hand method. Comparatively few men are able to set as many as 8,000 plants a day, and most laborers fall below 5,000, except in close planting under the most favorable conditions. In frame and greenhouse work small dibbers or trans- planting sticks are in common use. The holes may be made and the plants fastened in the same manner as. FIG. 36. TRANSPLANTING BOARD AND DIBBER when dibbers are used in the field. It is a great advan- tage to have the rows
. Vegetable gardening . Vegetable gardening; Project method in teaching. TRANSPLANTING 145 plants may be set as rapidly by this device as by any hand method. Comparatively few men are able to set as many as 8,000 plants a day, and most laborers fall below 5,000, except in close planting under the most favorable conditions. In frame and greenhouse work small dibbers or trans- planting sticks are in common use. The holes may be made and the plants fastened in the same manner as. FIG. 36. TRANSPLANTING BOARD AND DIBBER when dibbers are used in the field. It is a great advan- tage to have the rows straight and a uniform number of plants in each bed or plant box. To accomplish this purpose and to facilitate the work, spotting boards are often used. Sometimes these have small blocks nailed in check rows on the under side, and these merely mark places on the soil for the plants without making holes. Other boards are made with pins which may be forced into the soil, making the holes for each plant, but unless the soil is sandy and of the right degree of moisture they will not work successfully. Figure 36 shows a trans-. 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 Watts, Ralph Levi, 1869-. New York : Orange Judd
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