Th* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A year ago the garden refuse was put 
Into a big pile. Today it is a black mass 
of decayed vegetation, and has been 
spread and made a thick coat over nearly 
one-third of the garden. And all around 
me I see people burning the garden rub¬ 
bish and depending on some commercial 
fertilizer to make their vegetables, since 
it is almost impossible to get stable ma¬ 
nure now. unless one buys it by the car¬ 
load from New York City. This has now 
got to such a price that our truckers 
are nearly all refusing to buy it. Crim¬ 
son clover and commercial fertilizer are 
cheaper than fresh manure more than 
half straw at $6 a ton at the railroad 
station. The buried clover furnishes or¬ 
ganic decay or humus and some organic 
nitrogen, and helps to retain moisture 
needed badly at times in our sandy soil. 
Our largest strawberry growers are 
now growing Velvet beans for humus¬ 
making material, turned under in late 
Summer or early Fall for Fall planting, 
or followed by rye for Spring planting. 
They say that Crimson clover is too late 
for Spring setting, since it does not bloom 
till May here, and the strawberry plants 
set in Spring must be set in March or 
April. I have found that November is 
the best time here to set strawberry 
plants. They will get so well rooted 
that we get a small crop the next Spring, 
before Christmas. My hedge of the 
Amoor River privet is still green, and is 
always green except in occasional hard 
Winters. My one plant of the Ligustrum 
lueidum, with its broad foliage, is as 
fresh and green as at mid-Summer. and 
actually looks like it is growing. In the 
vegetable garden the parsnips, salsify and 
spinach are really growing, and the lawn 
grass is growing. This Lueidum privet 
is barely hardy at Philadelphia, but here 
I intend to propagate it for a low hedge, 
as it is naturally a dwarf plant. 
We now go to cleaning up and making 
another pile of the refuse for next Fall. 
.Into this pile go the cabbage stumps, 
sweet potato vines, tomato tops, beau 
vines, and, in fact, everything that will 
rot and become ready to go back to the 
garden in a year. The cornstalks are al¬ 
most too much for me unless I had some 
means for chopping them up like silage. 
But the big Canna tops and the Dahlia 
tops rot very rapidly and whatever in the 
way of grass and weeds that js hoed out 
of the garden adds to the pile and. with 
the addition of some fine bone meal, the 
material is very good in the cold frames 
to ‘start plants of various half hardy 
things, and we will soon be starting the 
second crop or succession plants of cab¬ 
bage in the frame’s, and the plants of the 
Prizetaker and others of the Spanish on¬ 
ions, for transplanting in the Spring. 
I would like the weather man to tell 
us why it is that we get our coldest 
weather after the sun turns northward, 
and the vernal equinox is so much colder 
than the Autumnal equinox. 
A It. N.-Y. reader says that his garden 
is full of wild onions, and wants to know 
how to get rid of them. I never knew a 
garden that was kept clean during the 
growing season to get infested with any 
perennial weed growth. That your gar¬ 
den is full of wild onions shows that you 
have been a slack gardener if you have 
owned the garden long. My garden, when 
I bought it. was filled with nutgrass and 
all sorts of evil growth. It is cleaner 
than any garden I know today. The 
only way to destroy weeds in a garden is 
to forbid their growing. Weeds, like gar¬ 
den plants, must have healthy tops above 
ground to thrive. If not allowed to make 
green leaves above ground the roots must 
die, for roots are made by the stems above 
ground. Even wild onions will die if not 
allowed to get carbon from the air by the 
green growth above ground. Keep the 
garden clean of all growth but the useful 
6ort. 
Speaking of garden weeds, there is one 
weed that no one here has ever succeeded 
in banishing. That is crab grass. We 
have to use some horse manure, and that 
alone will keep up the supply of seed, but 
our soil seems to have it in an inexhaust¬ 
ible stock of the seed, and it is the one 
weed that compels us to hoe clean and 
rake it off if it has been allowed to get 
any size, for if left on the soil it will 
laugh at you and root again. If it was 
not for the crab grass we would probably 
get lazy in hot weather, but crab grass 
will not let us be idle. w. r. massey. 
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