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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 
