March, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
201 
You will note that it is a wheel-hoe gar¬ 
den, all the vegetables in long rows run¬ 
ning north and south, no small beds and 
110 paths except the main central and 
traverse paths, wide enough for a wheel¬ 
barrow or garden wagon. All my boy¬ 
hood gardens were a series of small beds 
and had to be hand-weeded and hand- 
hoed. Since then the wheel-hoe has come 
into prominence. I got one, right off, for 
•one can accomplish five times as much in 
•one-fifth the time as with the old spade, 
hoe and rake methods. The wheel-hoe 
has a small plow, which turns over your 
soil as fast as you can push it, three culti¬ 
vator hooks to break up the plow clods, 
two harrow rakes and two hoes, the latter 
for weeding. I could appreciate all those 
soil-preparation tools, and used them at 
once, but the efficiency of the hoe attach¬ 
ment as a weeding tool I did not realize 
iuntil next year, for my rows were down 
too close together at first to use the hoe 
properly. 
Planting went on merrily by simply 
throwing two furrows against each other 
with the plow and planting on the ridge 
(you see, I was still much afraid of that 
wet soil), and by the middle of May the 
tender vegetables were in; beans, corn, 
tomatoes, eggplants, and the summer came 
on apace. 
But I had reckoned without my soil. 
The fruit trees and berries put forth their 
leaves bravely, the vegetables came up on 
time, and those early May days were a 
delight. But by June a subtle change 
came over the whole garden. The soil was 
still as black and wet as ever, in spite of 
three weeks of sun; the young, tender 
seedlings of lettuce, radishes, beets and 
spinach seemed to languish and stop grow¬ 
ing. A distinct appearance of withering 
•overtook the fruit-tree leaves; they were 
curling up and turning yellow, the rasp¬ 
berry leaves were shriveling before my 
eyes. An alarming blight seemed to spread 
over everything. At first I thought it was 
lack of sufficient sunlight, so I took out, 
furiously, the remaining forest trees over 
the garden. It then got direct sunlight 
from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M., in spite of the 
wall of forest trees on the east and west. 
Still the desolation went on; all the trees 
dropped their first crop of leaves and the 
strawberry and asparagus plants turned 
yellow and died. Young radishes, spin¬ 
ach and beets simply withered away and 
died after the first two leaves; the string 
beans (which will grow anywhere) con¬ 
tented themselves with two sickly yellow 
leaves; peas rose to about six inches high, 
stopped, and turned yellow. 
Ah, that terrible June! T, that was one 
of the most successful boy gardeners of 
my time, saw my work as a grown man 
coming to nought before my eyes. It 
could not be the drainage entirely, for un¬ 
der the long, sunny, dry spell my soil was 
simply fresh and moist — not soggy. Could 
it be the soil itself—that rich, black loam 
that looked to be so ideal for plant 
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