PATHS, EDGES AND COMPOST 



probably have a grass edge to keep neat. Run 

 your garden line along the edge just as you did 

 when you first laid out your garden, then cut under 

 the line with a sharp spade or an "edger," which is 

 a sharp tool the shape of a half moon. Be sure you 

 cut all the way through the grass roots. Now lift 

 the line and take out all the grass and grass roots 

 that are on the bed side of this cut line. Once in 

 several weeks is usually often enough to do this, 

 but you see the soil in your garden is so nice and 

 mellow and tempting the grass will always be creep- 

 ing toward it. 



If you have made a compost heap of weeds and 

 grass cuttings, and vegetable tops, turn it over so 

 as to help it decay to make good humus for your 

 garden next year. When you lift a fork full turn 

 it over as you put it down ; shape the pile up neatly, 

 then drench it with water as moisture greatly helps 

 decay. 



If you have vines on your compost heap to cover 

 its unpleasant appearance, you cannot, of course, 

 turn the pile over, but you can wet it down thor- 

 oughly. Be sure and turn the compost which has 

 been covered as soon as the plants growing on it 

 died in the fall. You not only want it to decay, 

 but you want to turn out any insects which may 



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