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Show FiLL IS THE TOIE TO CLEAX AND TLOW UP A little work in the fall devoted de-voted to cleaning and plowing! or digging the garden will help i to keep the plants healthy and! 'the garden free from weeds nest' summer, says j. c. Hogenson, i extenston specialist in Agronomy.! Cleaning the garden in the fall will remove a big crop of weed seeds and simplify the problem of weeding next summer. sum-mer. prom the viewpoint of weed control alone, fall cleaning clean-ing is profitable. Pull all old vegetabes and weeds; pile and burn them. Some of our most 1 destructive plant diseases are ; caused by fungi which live in the old Toots and stems. As j these decay in the ground the fungi become scattered through j the soil. When the soil once j becomes infested it is necessary j to avoid planting these vegetables I there for many years. Pulling and burning these old j plants also prevents the survival of many insects which hibernate during the winter under the litter. lit-ter. Perennial garden plants such as asparagus, rhubarb, etc., should be cut off at the surface of the ground after frost has killed the tops and the dead parts raked up and burned. W;hen your garden is fertilized with fresh manure and plowed in the fall and allowed to lie throughout the winter without further working, the freezing and thawing breaks up the soil into small particles and gives them a chance to settle down into a fine ' compact mellow seed bed. While harrowed in the spring, such a seed bed becomes ideal for the rapid growth of young plants. Fall plowing, likewise, helps to kill insect pests by exposing the eggs and the hibernating adults to the freezing winter weather. The plowing under of the manure man-ure in the fall causes the plant food which the manure contains con-tains to become available to the young plants in the early spring and thus cause more rapid, vigorous vig-orous and even growth, Mr. Hogenson Ho-genson says. |