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Show Asparagus Bed Worthy of Good Attention The asparagus bed will make good returns for any reasonable amount of time which one spends on It. Too often oft-en It Is allowed to grow as best it can In some remote corner of the garden The application of fertilizer, In the form of barnyard manure and some cultivation will Increase the frultful-ness frultful-ness of the plants and make the shoots more tender and more palatable. A good dressing of barnyard manure should be worked into the soil around the asparagus crowns as soon as the soil Is. In.. working condition- In the spring.- Keep the weeds down duriug the growing season by hoeing or cultivating. cul-tivating. At the. end of the cutting season allow the plants to grow up aud form seed. ' - - . |