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Show THE GARDEN SPOT Beware of Over-Cultivation By Eldred E. Green "TAKE IT EASY. You'll live longer," is a common saying and in the garden you will enjoy yourself more if you apply that principle. The most pathetic garden is the one that started out early In the spring as a grand affair and then fizzled out as the hot weather caused caus-ed the worker to "done run out of ambition'' as one lady put it. The first factor is soil preparation. prepara-tion. A clay, loam or any stiff soil is benefitted by a turning to loosen it up Plowing, spading, or rotary tilling will do the job. In hand spading spad-ing remember that you do not plant all the garden at once. Dig it as you need it. This will save backaches back-aches and keep a crop of weeds from starting on the soil that is the plants are to be set. The area in between can be taken care of later Heavy soils will be aided if rotted humus of some kind is worked in. Leaves, old sawdust, manure, peat, compost are all valuable This can be, mixed in when the soil Is prepared pre-pared Generally a depth of eight inches is enough for most plants. Trees and large shrubs may heed more Cultivation in the garden should be limited to one idea: killing weeds,. In lawns and around shrubs the new preparations of 2-4D 2-4D are fine; in the garden a light noeing or scuffing of the soil is generally sufficient. Watering is a chore unless a hose is able to reach. Watering and weeding can be kept to a minimum or eliminated if a good mulch is used Dried leaves, grass clippings, straw old manure sawdust or strips, of heavy, weighted paper can be used to cover the soil between be-tween plants or around larger ones. The mulch prevents weeds from takinp hold and keeps the soil from drying out. Fertilizing may seem difficult but in the home garden a sack of a complete plant food is the best and cheapest way of adding fertility ; Manure is excellent if it can be ob-i ob-i tained and worked into the soil. Testing for individual elements may be a pleasant pastime but the amount of special chemicals needed in must cm be more easily added in a ready-mixed, balanced formula Pests may cause trouble but now there are many preparations that will control all of the garden pests with one spray These combination products have been supplemented to good advantage b DDT which most of rhprr rnnttn turned too long ahead Sandy or light soils may need only a raking to fit them for planting plant-ing I"he soil needs to be loose: that is all In planting large peienmals as peonies cr trees and shrubs, the soil neei only be prepared where |