VI. 



WEEDING AND TRANSPLANTING 



Very little can be done in the way of weed- 

 ing until the seedling vegetables are of a size 

 that will make it easy for the amateur to tell 

 which is which" readily. As soon as this 

 can be done, weeding should begin. If this 

 part of garden-work is done thoroughly at the 

 start, it will be comparatively easy to keep 

 the weeds under during the remainder of the 

 season. As they are wonderfully aggressive 

 and extremely rapid in development, a little 

 neglect at the time when they should receive 

 careful attention will enable them to get a 

 start that will be greatly to the detriment 

 of the vegetable plants among which they 

 grow, and make the work of cleaning out 

 the beds not only difficult but dangerous, 

 for their roots will have become so inter- 

 woven with those of the other plants that it 

 will be almost impossible to pull up one 

 without uprooting the other. This is why 



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