Everymans Garden Every Week

Author : Charles Albert Selden
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230455679
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Everyman's Garden, Every Week written by Charles Albert Selden and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX APEIl THE FIB ST WEEK Have you an accumulation of the winter's wood ashes and are you doubtful as to the best use to which they may be put in the garden? The strawberry bed is hungry for them. They will renew the soil's supply of potash and that is a good plant food for fruit. Rake in the ashes now, or as soon as the ground is rakable, and there will be better and larger berries and more of them in June. Even a few pounds of ashes scattered over an area of twenty square feet will be effective, but choose a still day for the work, because this fertilizer is too useful to be wasted by being blown away. Strawberries do not require more plant food in the long run for all the various stages of their growth than other products of the garden, but they want most of it in a comparatively short time, because the interval between the start of the spring growth and the fruiting is brief. The making of the berries is a terrific strain on the plant and it must be helped. To appreciate what the help means, compare the diminutive wild strawberry that grows by the wayside without care and the wonderful cultivated berry of the garden. This cultivation of the strawberry has been going on now for 260 years and fertilization has been one of the chief factors in its development. So no gardener should neglect his own patch. As. already said, the wood ashes will provide the potash. A small quantity of bone meal -- say, a pound to twenty square feet -- will give the soil what phosphoric acid is needed for the plant and even less nitrate of soda will provide the needed nitrogen. These chemical fertilizers are much easier to handle than barnyard manure, quicker in their beneficial effect on the plants and cost less unless you happen to have a horse of...