. Western home journal and the Inter-mountain poultry journal . CELERY TALK. Surface Culture In Doable RovfbWith u 3Innnre Mulch. Apropos of setting celery for falland winter crops in the south, a in^n of mark In the jiarden-Ing fratoiuity of the nortn, meditates In the bottom ot the trenches, withbanks of earth between the rows. show^i the double rows on the surfaceof the ground, banks of coarsemanure between each two doublerows, the manure being held up andaway from the plant rows by l)oardsset up on long edge on each side ofeach double row. In either case tiie plants
. Western home journal and the Inter-mountain poultry journal . CELERY TALK. Surface Culture In Doable RovfbWith u 3Innnre Mulch. Apropos of setting celery for falland winter crops in the south, a in^n of mark In the jiarden-Ing fratoiuity of the nortn, meditates In the bottom ot the trenches, withbanks of earth between the rows. show^i the double rows on the surfaceof the ground, banks of coarsemanure between each two doublerows, the manure being held up andaway from the plant rows by l)oardsset up on long edge on each side ofeach double row. In either case tiie plants are protect-ed from drying winds and heat. In themulcliing system we luive another ad-vantage. If weather Is very dry andhot, WG cau let a stream of water. If. l lii. ) TiC-NCIl on past and present metliods of celerycukiiie after the fuliowlng fashion re-corded in Farm auci Fireside: The method usuallj employed thereis to plant in l)eds six fi et wide, witlalleys of same w Idth between each twobeds. The space for the plants ,;;tly , say four inchesdeep, and the plants are set In rowsacioss the tied, which rows are onefoot apart, wliile the plants in the rowsare set six iuciies apart. The binl Istlien gradually tilled up with earthfrom the alleys. The prime conditionof success in growing celery thus close-ly r is an of availaliii-plant foods in the soil. It is uot euouglthat we plenty of manure In thesoil, but tills manure sliould l)e old—that is. well rotted aud i;uimately mix-ed with the soil. I wonder what suc-cess soutliern piople would meet ifthey were to try the old plan of plant-in.^ In trenches. Sometimes 1 have anotion to plant a patch in this wayagain. The chief di;::cr.!ty is t
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