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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1910 



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Preparing the Soil for Planting 



THE work of breaking up the rough soil will 

 now have to be commenced. If the soil is 

 not very hard or stony the greater part of the dig- 

 ging can be done with spades; but mattocks are 

 much more effective if the ground is stony or matted 

 with roots of trees. All stones and other rubbish 

 brought to the surface must be wheeled away, and 

 the soil dug as deeply as possible without bringing 

 clay or hardpan to the surface. 



Many of the artificial fertilizers on the market 

 are excellent in their way, containing as they do 

 everything required for the nourishment of plants; 

 but some soils, because of their stiff nature, are 

 greatly benefited by a liberal application of well- 

 rotted barnyard manure. Work it well into the soil 

 with digging forks or plow it in; and then, if bone 

 meal or some other equally good fertilizer is applied 

 at the rate of about one ton to an acre and thoroughly 

 incorporated with the soil, the ground is ready for 

 final grading with wooden or iron rakes. 



INSTALLING DRAINS 



If roughly cleared ground is wet or sour, it will 

 need to be thoroughly drained, because very few 

 trees or plants will thrive in such soils. The 

 simplest and best way to do this is to take accurate 

 measurements of the land and work out, on paper, 

 the plan for drainage, which will save time while 

 the actual work is under way and will also be of 

 use should there be occasion to disturb the pipes 

 in any way. Drains are permanent improvements 

 and for that reason, as well as for the good of the 

 land, the work should be done thoroughly in the 

 beginning. Make single or lateral drains about 

 thirty feet apart and at a depth of at least two and 

 one-half feet. Make the trenches wide enough 

 for a man to work in them. The top soil should, 

 in most cases, be easily and quickly removed with 

 spades, a mark for each side having previously been 

 made with a garden line for a guide. The hard 

 subsoil will have to be loosened by picks and then 

 removed with long-handled shovels. 



In order that the water run freely through the 

 pipes, a continuous fall must be allowed from the 

 highest point to the main drain into which all the 

 laterals carry the water. This main drain pipe 

 should be large enough to carry away all the water 

 drained out of the soil by the two and one-half inch 

 tile pipes in the laterals. The disposition of the 

 drainage water as it emerges from the main drain 

 pipes will have to be provided for as the locality 

 and conditions will best permit. When the tile 

 pipes are laid in the drains a few broken stone 

 should be placed along both sides and on top of the 

 pipes, and a light covering of loose straw or excel- 

 sior put over these in order to prevent loose soil 

 falling into and causing an obstruction in the pipes. 

 All the soil needed tp fill in the drains can be quickly 

 shoveled in from both sides after the pipes have been 

 placed in position. 



New York. ' David McIntosh. 



Using Straw Matting in the 

 Garden 



AFTER every "spring cleaning" we usually 

 have left over a roll of old, worn-out straw 

 matting, which we take out into the garden. We 

 cut it up into convenient widths and lay it between 

 the rows in the strawberry bed and between the 

 currant and raspberry bushes — in fact, wherever 

 it is desirable to keep down the weeds and maintain 

 moisture in the ground, and wherever a mulch is 

 desirable. 



A thousand and one similar uses can be made 

 of this cast-off material. If cut into strips about 

 half its full width and rolled into cylinders about 

 the diameter of a barrel, it makes excellent shields 

 for transplanted tomato vines. A few old barrel- 

 hoops serve to maintain the shape. 



Narrow strips, say about six inches wide, can be 

 rolled into small cylinders and filled with earth. 

 Plant early vegetables in these. When these have 

 gotten a good start the whole thing can be put out 

 in the garden without disturbing the roots. A wad 

 of stiff paper in the bottom will prevent the earth 

 from falling through and the roots will readily 

 penetrate this when it is planted out. 



Massachusetts. Walter H. Sears. 



