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for the open ground as soon as the season will permit. And here 
let me say, that when your cabbage does not head well, four-fifths 
of the time it is simply because the soil is not strong enough to 
bring forward a full crop. It is possible to make a piece of land 
too rich for potatoes, but I have never seen a crop of cabbages in¬ 
jured in that way, and never expect to. Hence, don't spare the 
manure upon your cabbage bed. Tomatoes, egg-plant, peppers 
and sweet potatoes should not be put out until the ground has 
become warm and the spring frosts are over. 
But amid the hurry and bustle of planting, you must not forget 
nor neglect to take care of your strawberries. If you have not a 
bed of them, put in a piece of ground at once with the Wilson* 
If you wish to experiment, do so, but make these your standard, 
until you are sure of something better. If you have a piece al¬ 
ready in, the winter covering must be taken off, and the beds thor¬ 
oughly cleaned out. Don’t leave a thing except the plants. After 
this is done, put on a coat of well rotted manure, or what is still 
better, if you can get it, ashes. If they are unleached, at the rate 
of about 150 bushels per acre. If leached, twice the amount. 
Your tomatoes for late crop, peppers and melons, will be about 
the last things put in for the first crop; for you must remember 
that you are not a successful gardener until you can double crop 
nearly your whole ground every season. And you must be bear¬ 
ing this in mind, and be preparing for it all the spring. But by 
the time and probably before your first crops are all in the ground, 
the seeds first put in will require your care and cultivation. In 
the mean time, if you have a good asparagus bed, your market 
wagon has had to be put upon its daily trips. And now comes a 
season of unceasing care and labor. Hot a day nor an hour 
should be lost. In the highly manured condition of your soil, the 
weeds come up literally by the million. They must not only be 
destroyed, but the young plants must be cultivated, to improve 
and hurry them on for the early market. If it rains, there are 
sure to be plants to transplant. If it pours down, you will still 
find it necessary to be on hand and watch your beds and see that 
the surplus waters of the falling flood are immediately carried off, 
and that your beds are made ready for work again at the earliest 
moment. To be sparing of care or labor now is ruinous, even if 
