CHILDREN'S GARDENS in 



mon weeds for medicine. Many of these wild plants 

 are edible, and, while not as good as our best garden 

 vegetables, are well worth knowing about. 



Using the cultivating stick. By the end of the 

 first week all of the vegetables should be up enough 

 to mark the rows and the children can then do their 

 first cultivating, using the cultivating stick, and loosen- 

 ing the earth between the rows to a depth of about 

 three inches, and carefully removing all the weeds. 

 Do not cultivate nearer than two inches to the vege- 

 tables to avoid destroying them, but the tiny weeds 

 should be pulled with the fingers from the vegetable 

 rows. If this is done when the weeds are small, be- 

 fore they have taken any substantial root, the labor 

 will be very much less, and the vegetables in the plot 

 will be much better off. In doing this work the chil- 

 dren should squat in the path, face in the direction 



Photos by the Author 



Using the cultivating stick Using the cultivating stick 



with the right hand with the left hand 



they are working, and use the hand nearest to the plot, 

 beginning at one end of the plot and working steadily 

 to the other end. Then facing in the opposite direc- 



