The Home Garden 



foothold. After they have begun to throw out 

 Toots from their joints, the use of the cultivator 

 can be dispensed with in their immediate 

 locality. 



After a sufficient number of plants have 

 gotten started between the rows to furnish as 

 many as you think are needed, cut them loose 

 from the old plants, and then go through the 

 old row with the cultivator, uprooting every 

 plant, or, if you choose to do so, turn them 

 under with the spade. By this method you 

 get a fresh set of roots for fruiting each season 

 and crop them but once, and by allowing them 

 to plant themselves by runner-propagation, 

 you are saved the trouble of preparing new beds. 

 Another advantage gained is that each year 

 the plants are shifted to soil that has not been 

 exhausted by a crop of fruit, but has been 

 made rich for the reception of new plants. 



I have grown strawberries in this way, in 

 the same bed for several years in succession. 

 Shifting the rows each year, as described, has 

 kept the plants as strong and healthy as they 

 would have been if set out in entirely new beds. 

 And why should they not be, since they renew 

 themselves each season? 



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