Cultivating Your Garden

Before taking up the garden vegetables individually, allow me to outline the general practice of cultivation, which applies to all.

The purposes of cultivation are four: to get rid of weeds, to stimulate growth, letting air into the soil and freeing unavailable plant food, and lastly conserving moisture for the vegetables.

As to weeds, all gardeners of any experience need not be told the importance of keeping his crops clean. 

I�m sure you have learned from bitter and costly experience the price of letting weeds get anything resembling even a start. With one or two days' growth, after they are well up, followed perhaps by a day or so of rain, any weed may easily double or triple the work of cleaning a patch of onions or carrots.   

Where weeds have attained any size they cannot be taken out of sowed crops without doing a great deal of injury.  Which I did recently to a new crop of carrots in their infancy.  They we placed in precarious position in the garden.  The weeds seemed to know of this tiny oversight and took eager advantage of my poor placement and rapidly took over the area.  

He also realizes, or should, that every day's growth means just so much available plant food stolen from under the very roots of his legitimate crops, not to mention the unsightly mess and confusion the master planned garden becomes when unattended.  

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