CHAPTER XXVII 

 PATHS, EDGES AND COMPOST 



PERHAPS the paths through or around your gar- 

 den are looking a little bit shabby and need fixing 

 up. If so run your garden line or string along 

 the edge of your beds just as you did when you first 

 laid out your garden. Make a shallow mark under 

 the line with your spade, then take out anything 

 growing in the paths either with a knife or the cor- 

 ner of your hoe, but do not dig large holes or your 

 path will become soft and uneven and hold pools 

 of water when it rains. 



If the path is lower than the beds (and it is very 

 apt to be because you have walked on it so much), 

 it naturally holds water, so we arch or crown the 

 path a little bit by scraping the earth from the sides 

 toward the center. This little drawing will show 

 you how your beds and path should look if you lay 

 down and looked across them at the ground level. 



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