EARLY GARDEN WORK 



the garden that this work becomes disagree- 

 able. 



Nor is it work that will require a good deal 

 of one's time. In the cultivation of a garden 

 it is the little attentions, given when needed, 

 that count, rather than the amount of labor 

 and time expended there, as you will find 

 when you come to have a garden of your own. 



If there are any vacant places in the beds 

 or rows, fill with plants -taken from places 

 where they stand too thick. In the small 

 garden there should be not one vacant spot. 

 Every bit of soil should be made to do its 

 share of work in the production of some 

 vegetable. 



If weeds are kept down during the early 

 part of the season there ought not to be 

 many during the latter part of it. But there 

 will be no time when there will not be some 

 to wage warfare against, and every gardener 

 should make it a rule to destroy every one 

 that gets a start as soon as discovered, for, 

 hy preventing it from developing seed, we 

 can save ourselves a good deal of work next 

 season. One weed will bear seed enough to 

 fill the whole garden with its progeny if 

 allowed to do so. 



If the soil was properlj^ fertilized at plant- 

 ing-time it will not be necessary to apply 



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