The Home Garden 



cooking purposes. It doesn't pay to store away 

 any that are too small for household use. 

 Better give them to the chickens, or the pigs. 



Many successful growers of the strawberry 

 make a practice of burning over their beds 

 this month, first mowing them. It certainly 

 does some good, for all larvae of worms and 

 insects will be gotten rid of by it, and if there 

 are no weeds in the beds there will not be 

 material enough for the fire to feed on to do 

 any damage. 



Winter mulching of strawberries should be 

 done about the time the ground is likely to 

 freeze, but not before. If put on too early, the 

 plants may make a late growth, especially if 

 the weather is warm. Leaves are excellent 

 material for this purpose, if you can get enough 

 of them. The only objection to them is that 

 they are so easily blown away. This difficulty 

 can be remedied, however, by putting a light 

 covering of hay or straw over the leaves. 



Go over the garden and give it a thorough 

 cleaning-up before cold weather sets in. The 

 gardener who takes pride in his garden in 

 summer ought to have pride in it in winter. 

 Make the ground perfectly clean. Remove 



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