. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. Fig. 162.—Strawberries grown in narrow, matted rows with straw mulch between. (Indiana Station.) other two plans the mulch may remain between the rows untilafter picking. The fruit clusters may form upon it and are thuskept out of dirt. This mulch keeps down the weeds, conserves. Fig. 163.—Strawberries in narrow hedge-rows three feet apart. The straw mulch savesmoisture in the soil,
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. Fig. 162.—Strawberries grown in narrow, matted rows with straw mulch between. (Indiana Station.) other two plans the mulch may remain between the rows untilafter picking. The fruit clusters may form upon it and are thuskept out of dirt. This mulch keeps down the weeds, conserves. Fig. 163.—Strawberries in narrow hedge-rows three feet apart. The straw mulch savesmoisture in the soil, keeps the berries clean, and keeps down the weeds. moisture and makes picking more agreeable. After the crop is allgathered, the vines are mowed down, raked off with the mulchand put into the compost heap. FERTILIZING 237 Two kinds of mulching material, corn stalks and straw, areshown in figures 165 and 166. Cultivation of Strawberries.—The plants respond readily tothorough cultivation. The more tillage given to the patch, thebetter the plants will grow and the larger will be the yield. Culti-vation in the matted-row is very limited and does not come close toany plant but at the edges of the rows. The soil is apt to becomehard and baked as the strawberry takes its moisture from the regions where grass tends to grow, considerable handwork andhoe work may be necessary. Clean cultivation with no weeds andgrass should be the rule.
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