The subsoil in this locality is dry for forty or 
fifty feet down, but we often have three to seven 
feet of surface moisture. For this reason trans- 
planted shrubs and trees need an adequate supply 
of water every few days or weeks depending on the 
rainfall. Trees should receive enough water so that 
the soil will be moist two or three feet deep every 
ten days or two weeks. Shallow rooted plants need 
water more often but the soil will need to be moist 
only a few inches or a foot deep. Some may even 
need watering every day or several times a day if 
the temperature is high. In cooler weather less 
watering is necessary. 
Nearly all trees, shrubs, and plants make much 
better growth when proper fertilizer is used. Nearly 
all plants need nitrogen, phosphates, potash, and 
lime. Legumes need less nitrogen than other plants 
that we have tested. Outside of nearly all bulbs, 
large root crops, or deep rooted plants, and celery; 
few plants respond to potash. Some plants require 
much lime; other plants require moderate amounts, 
but it may injure acid loving plants. As far as I 
know, all plants, shrubs, and trees respond to phos- 
phate fertilizers. 
The University of Nebraska has testing facilities 
for the four elements just mentioned. However, it 
sometimes happens that these elements are tied up 
in the soil so that the plants can not use them. The 
best test is the simple method of buying a sack of 
fertilizer and applying and checking the results at 
harvest time in comparison with untreated crops in 
the same field. Our garden crops respond to fer- 
tilizers containing one or more of a dozen other 
minor elements. 
The Borax Company published a_ sixteen-page 
pamphlet on boron, showing that much research has 
been done but very little use has been made of it 
since 1942. 
Three other elements, iron, copper, and zinc, also 
benefit quite a number of plants. 
Acid loving plants may sometimes respond to salt, 
sulphur, and aluminum compounds from actual tests 
here, but very little literature is available on the use 
of these elements. 
Plants will often live for years in deficient soil 
but grow better if they can get all the necessary 
food required in available form. 
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