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mix the fertilizer with it. Next put the 

 rakes on the wheel hoe and pulverize and 

 level the little furrows left by the plough. 



" If you lack space for garden vegetables 

 and wish to do some intensive gardening, sow 

 a row of vegetables, such as early lettuce, 

 radishes, spinach, or some quick-maturing 

 crop, halfway between the rows of straw- 

 berries. Put the rows of strawberry plants 

 and the vegetables at least one foot apart. 

 A very good way is to mix lettuce and radish 

 seed and sow them. The radish will ger- 

 minate in about a week; then one can con- 

 tinue cultivation with wheel hoe. Put on 

 two cultivator teeth on each side of the hoe 

 and run them on either side of the row of 

 vegetables — i. e., straddle it. Clean out all 

 these early vegetables in June, so as not to 

 obstruct the cultivation of the strawberries. 

 If one has elsewhere in the garden plenty of 

 rich soil prepared for vegetables, do not plant 

 any crop in the strawberry rows. 



" During midsummer cultivate so that 

 there will be a dust mulch — a fine layer of 

 soil on the surface — that will cause the 

 moisture to rise by capillary attraction. The 

 best way to do this with the wheel hoe is to 



