How to manage a Garden 



taken out and wheeled to B for filling in the last 

 trench. Plot No. i will be dug first. The trench 

 taken out from Plot 2 at C will be used for completing 

 the Plot i. Plot 2 will be completed by taking a trench 

 from Plot 3, and in like manner with Plot 3 and 4. 

 This system saves carting the soil the whole length of 

 the plot. 



It will be well, however, to enter somewhat further into 

 details. The first trench, three feet wide and one foot 

 deep, has been taken out. The soil beneath is covered 

 with some good, half-decayed manure and leaves, and 

 thoroughly turned over. This soil especially should be 

 well broken. This completed, we skim off the turf from 

 another strip two feet wide, and lay it grass side downward 

 over the newly dug portion. The second two feet of soil 

 is then dug over on to the first, keeping it uniformly level 

 at the top, and well breaking the soil underneath. Manure 

 is again dug into the exposed surface of the second strip, 

 and so on throughout the plot. In order to have the work 

 well done, it is essential that the width be properly marked 

 out with a line and the soil stirred to a uniform depth. By 

 trenching thus we, so to speak, increase the acreage of land, 

 not by enlarging the superficial area, but by doubling the 

 depth, and making more rooting space for the plants. It 

 will be observed that under the system of trenching here 

 advocated there is practically no danger. The position of 

 the layers of soil is not reversed. Bad, sour soil is not 

 brought to the top, but is well loosened and manured in 

 order to free it from a surcharge of moisture, and render it 

 capable, not only of admitting the roots of plants, but like- 

 wise of affording nourishment to them. By adopting this 

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