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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1907 





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August Among the Strawherries 



THHIS is an important month for the straw- 

 ■*- berry grower, for there are two things 

 to be done; first, giving the necessary 

 attention to beds that were set this spring 

 so that they will bear a full crop next year; 

 and secondly, setting out new beds from pot- 

 grown runners. If you intend to get a good 

 crop next spring, you should plant vour 

 bed from runners this August. Later fall 

 planting is successful under certain con- 

 ditions, but there is practically no doubt 

 whatever about summer or August planting. 

 Pot-grown plants cost more than ordinary 

 layer plants, but they are well worth it 

 because they never know they have been 

 shifted and keep growing straight ahead. 



PROTECTING OLD FIELDS 



In field culture, it is generally more eco- 

 nomic to protect the strawberry plants by 

 growing a cover crop than by mulching, 

 as in garden practice. Oats makes a good 

 winter cover crop and should be sown in 

 August, at the rate of two bushels of clean 

 seed broadcast to the acre, and covered by 

 the cultivator. That falling among the plants 

 will be shaded thereby, but sufficient will 

 strike root and grow for all necessities; that 

 falling between the rows is covered by the 

 cultivator and will grow most vigorously, 

 so that by the advent of frost it will have 

 attained a height of about two feet. This 

 cover is killed by the winter, and the tops, 

 carried down by the snows, make a most 

 efficient protection. Being rooted, more- 

 over, it will not be blown off by the spring 

 winds, which so aggravating!}- roll up a 

 loosely applied mulch. 



MULCH CONSERVES SOIL MOISTURE 



Another advantage claimed for the growing 

 oats is that the crop uses up the soil moisture 

 and thus hastens the strawberry plant to 

 ripen up, so that it goes into winter quarters 

 in better condition than those plants which 

 receive their first check from the elements. 



The oat straw, being soft, offers but slight 

 hindrance to the re-awakened plants in 

 spring. It is well, however, to go down the 

 rows occasionally with a hay fork and part 

 the straw in places where it may have fallen 

 too thickly which is indicated by the bulging 

 up where the young plants are pushing 

 through. 



No cultivation should be done next spring 

 until after the crop has been harvested, 

 and then only if the intention is to retain 

 the bed for a second crop. 



New York. A. Bonar Balfour. 



