Making a Garden

The first thing to do in the garden of the selection in one place. Without a choice, do it simply means the best you can with conditions. With space limited it resolves itself into no garden, or a box garden. Surely a box garden is better than nothing. But let us now assume that it is possible to actually choose just the right site for the garden. What is to be elected? The biggest factor is the sun. No one would have a north corner, unless it was absolutely forced upon him, because, while north corners do for ferns, certain wild flowers, and begonias, are of limited value, as spots for a general garden. If possible, choose the ideal spot a southern exposure. Here the sun all day long is warm. If the garden is thus the rows of vegetables and flowers should run north and south, are located. Placed where the plants, the sun the whole morning to get the eastern side, and the whole afternoon on the west side. You should not have to unbalanced systems with such an arrangement. Take the garden faces southeast. In this case the western sun is out of the problem. To the best distribution of sunlight run the rows northwest and southeast. The idea to get the most sunlight as evenly distributed as possible for the longest time. From the lopsided growth of window plants it is light enough to see the effects on plants poorly distributed light. So, if you remember a little diagram that the sun will shine one part of the day use on the one side, and part of the plants on the other side, you can juggle out any situation. The southern exposure offers the ideal case because the sun gives half on almost every page. A Northern Exposure may mean an almost complete cut-off from sunlight, while northeastern and southwestern places always unequal distribution of solar radiation, no matter how carefully is planned. The garden, if possible, should be planned on paper. The plan is a big help when the real planting period comes. It saves time and unnecessary buying of seed. New garden spots are likely to be found in two conditions: they are either covered with turf or with rubbish. In large garden areas the ground and plowed up the sod below, but in small gardens remove the sod. How do you take the pitch in the best way is the next question. Stake and line off the garden spot. The line has to follow a precise and straight course. Trim the edges with the spade all along the line. If the area is a small, approximately four feet by eighteen or twenty, this is an easy matter. Such a narrow strip can be marked like a chess board, cut the grass easily removed by using a spade, and. This could be done in two long strips cut lengthwise of the strip. If the lawn is cut through, roll it up like a carpet right role. But suppose the garden plot is large. Then they divide into strips a foot wide and take the grass as before. What should be done with the sod? Do not throw it away because it is filled with riches, if not quite in the form available. So the turf grass side down grabs a box on another. Leave it to rot and weather. When rotted it makes a fine fertilizer. Such a pile of rotting vegetable matter is called a compost pile. Throughout the summer at no old green vegetable matter to it. In autumn the leaves in autumn. A fine lot of the good is fixed for another season. Even though the garden big enough to plow, I would like to pick the largest pieces of SOD, rather than in the frame. Go over the plowed area, take the pieces of SOD, shake it well and pack them into a compost heap. Mere spading of the ground is not sufficient. The soil is still left in lumps. Always be a spade a break to the big lumps. But even so the ground is in no shape for planting. Soil must be planted in very fine indeed in, because seeds can very well in the vicinity of fine particles of soil. But the large lumps leave large spaces that can penetrate no tiny root hair. A seed is left stranded in a perfect, when planted in chunks of waste ground. A baby with great pieces of beefsteak would starve surrounded. A seed among large lumps of earth is in a similar situation. The spade never can do, this work of pulverizing soil. But the rake can. This is the value of the rake. It is a great lump breaker, but not to do for large lumps. If the ground is still in large chunks, he shall take the hoe. Many people handle the hoe awkwardly. The main work of this implement is to rid the soil of weeds and stir up the top. It will be used in summer to the mulch of dust so valuable to keep moisture in the soil to form. I often see people as if they had gone to chop into atoms everything around. Heels should never as vigorously through how they will. Digging machine is powerful, hard work, but not hoes and rakes. After making use of the rake lump on the bed, broken fine, and smooth. Now the great piece of work is done.