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But I seldom make a spinach-bed by itself, 

 using instead the intervening spaces between 

 other things. I put a row or two between my 

 hardy raspberries, blackcaps, and blackberries 

 Where I make a new strawberry-bed in summer, 

 I sow spinach in September between the rows. 

 The same covering and manure answers for 

 both, and as the rows are two feet apart, and 

 the spinach is marketed in April, they do not 

 interfere with each other. This should only be 

 done the first fall, and on highly enriched land : 

 after that the strawberries should have all to 

 themselves. But in the fall and spring of '70- 

 71, I raised fine crops in this way, and by the 

 time winter commenced in '72 there must have 

 been ten or fifteen barrels of spinach growing on 

 my new strawberry-beds. The heavy body of 

 snow has protected it so far, and if the spring is 

 favorable, it will all be marketed by the end of 

 the first week in Mav. 



