THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES
THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES.
Before taking up the garden vegetables individually, I shall outline the general practice of cultivation,
which applies to all.
The purposes of cultivation are three to get rid of weeds, and to...
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THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES
THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES.
Before taking up the garden vegetables individually, I shall outline the general practice of cultivation,
which applies to all.
The purposes of cultivation are three to get rid of weeds, and to stimulate growth by (1) letting air into
the soil and freeing unavailable plant food, and (2) by conserving moisture.
As to weeds, the gardener of any experience need not be told the importance of keeping his crops
clean.
He has learned from bitter and costly experience the price of letting them get anything
resembling a start.
He knows that one or two days growth, after they are well up, followed perhaps by
a day or so of rain, may easily double or treble the work of cleaning a patch of onions or carrots, and
that where weeds have attained any size they cannot be taken out of sowed crops without doing a
great deal of injury.
He also realizes, or should, that every day s growth means just so much available
plant food stolen from
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