Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . It differs in puttingthe roots much wider apart than usual, his standsix feet between the rows and four feet between the plants,making less than two thousand plants to an acre. In pre-paring the land to receive the plants, he merely plows to VEGETABLES—ASPARAGUS. Ill the depth of a foot or so with the ordinary plow; his soft,sandy subsoil rendering the use of the subsoil plow un-necessary, but in soils less favored, the use of the subsoilplow would be of decided advantage. In preparing toplant, he tar
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . It differs in puttingthe roots much wider apart than usual, his standsix feet between the rows and four feet between the plants,making less than two thousand plants to an acre. In pre-paring the land to receive the plants, he merely plows to VEGETABLES—ASPARAGUS. Ill the depth of a foot or so with the ordinary plow; his soft,sandy subsoil rendering the use of the subsoil plow un-necessary, but in soils less favored, the use of the subsoilplow would be of decided advantage. In preparing toplant, he tarns out a furrow with a double mould-boardplow, so that at its deepest part it is nearly 12 inchesdeep; a good shovelful of thoroughly rotted manure isthen placed in the furrow, at distances of four feet, sospread that it will make a layer of three inches or so; aninch or two of soil is then thrown on the top of the manureand the Asparagus planted as shown in the engraving,and so deep that its crown is seven or eight inches belowthe surface level. The plant is now only partially covered. Fig. 26.—MANNER OF PLANTING ASPARAGUS. up with the soil, say two or three inches, until it starts togrow, when the furrows are thrown in by the plow sothat the whole surface is levelled, which places the crownof the Asparagus some seven or eight inches under thesurface. This would be, perhaps, four inches too deep inheavy soils, but in light, soft soils it answers well. Thefirst and second seasons after planting, no Asparagus iscut for market, as it weakens the roots, but in the thirdyear a partial crop is taken, although the beds are notconsidered to be at their best until the sixth or seventhyear. Their productiveness may be continued for twentyyears by this wide system of planting, recourse being had 112 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. to manuring freely annually, by digging or i)lowing it inaround the roots before the crop lias started to grow, orafter it is cut. I may here mention that Mr. Van Si
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