268 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1906 
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GARDEN WORK FOR APRIL 
By Eben E. Rexford 
ECAUSE April is one of the busiest 
months of the whole year, in the North, 
it is likely to see a good deal of its work 
poorly done unless that work is planned out 
well in advance. The gardener has to learn 
what the farmer has learned—that in order to 
keep one’s work well in hand it must be 
thought out beforehand. If this is not done, 
some of it, in the rush of the season, will most 
likely be slighted, and probably none of it will 
receive as much attention as it deserves. 
Therefore, plan out your garden, be it a 
flower or vegetable one, before the time comes 
to begin work in it. Plan to systematize that 
work so that no time or labor will be wasted, 
and follow that plan to the letter. 
Never let yourself be beguiled into bed- 
making in the vegetable garden. Plant every- 
thing in rows, and let the rows be as long as 
possible, to avoid frequent turns. Use a horse- 
cultivator, if the size of the garden will war- 
rant. If too small for that, the hand- 
cultivator will come in play. ‘The use of the 
cultivator does away with hand weeding to a 
great extent, and does the work of the hoe at 
the same time. 
Few soils are naturally rich enough to grow 
fine vegetables without the addition of manure. 
The best of all manures is that from the cow 
yard, and the older and rottener it is the better. 
Fresh manure is never desirable. “Those who 
can not obtain cow manure will find a very 
good substitute in the commercial fertilizers, 
of which guano or bonemeal is the basis. 
Whatever fertilizer is used should be applied 
to the soil before it is plowed or spaded, that 
it may be thoroughly worked into it. 
If your garden is large enough to warrant 
the use of the plow in getting it ready for 
planting, well and good, for it will save a good 
deal of hard work. But if it is one of the 
small ones, the spade will have to be used. 
But whatever plow or spade is used, be sure to 
work the soil over until it is as fine and mel- 
low as it can be made. ‘This is one of the 
important items of successful gardening. 
The hand-cultivator of to-day is generally 
fitted up with a seed-sowing attachment which 
can be easily removed or put in place. It not 
only does the work of sowing seed more rapidly 
than it can be done by hand, but it does it 
better. By all means, get a combirfed ma- 
chine if you are buying a new one. 
“Haste” often “makes waste’ in garden- 
ing operations. “That is, we sow seed before 
the soil is in proper condition for it. Some- 
times it fails to germinate, and sometimes it 
produces weak and sickly plants, which those 
from seed sown perhaps a fortnight later, 
after the soil has become warm, almost in- 
variably excel in growth. ‘Therefore do not 
be in too great a hurry to get your seed into 
the ground. Wait until the weather is warm, 
and the soil has got rid of the excess of mois- 
ture resulting from melting snows and spring 
rains. 
In order to have as long a succession of 
vegetables as possible, make use of early, 
medium and late varieties, sowing them ten 
days or two weeks apart. 
Arrange for a support for your peas about 
as soon as you have sown the seed, for the 
work can be done to better advantage then 
than later. I have come to depend on a home- 
made trellis made by stringing binder-twine 
back and forth across a frame of wood, i 
such a manner as to form diamond-shaped 
meshes, about five or six inches across. A 
frame is easily made by driving posts into the 
ground, at the ends of the row, and nailing 
strips of wood to top and bottom. These 
