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Show Garden in Hot Weather. When hot weather visits us the fate of most gardens hangs in the balance At this time, the garden needs our care more than at any other and we feel less like giving it the necessary care. The weather is hot and the air is still, and a hammock in a shady nook looks better to father than any "Man With the Hoe" tableau, especially especial-ly after a hard day's work. Remember that the kind of weather that gives you a very tired feeling, makes the weeds grow rank and bold and dries the garden soil until It is almost waterproof. wa-terproof. Probably you feel that you don't need the exercise nearly as much as you did in the spring, and probably you are right; at the same time it will do you good If you take it properly, and you cannot afford to have the garden go to pieces just when a little work will pull it through in grand shape. Get up half an hour earlier than usual and do your garden work then, instead of waiting until the tired eventide even-tide or trying to lump it all into a week's end job. A little daily work in the cool of the early morning will send you to your regular bread-and-butter Job feeling many times better than that little extra sleep, would. Gone is that brown taste gone the dead-alive feeling that the long stifling sti-fling summer night brings. Nature is at her loveliest while the dew is on and half the fun of gardening garden-ing is getting close to nature. Do your gardening before you are tired out and enjoy it to the utmost. We have previously told you what to do for the weeds, which, like the poor, are always with us. Unlike the poor, however, they need no assistance, assist-ance, but the strongest possible resistance, re-sistance, because they are altogether too well able to fend for themselves. Cut off their heads, cut off their feet, burn their middles, and do it before be-fore they have any offspring. Then start in and do it all over again, because be-cause they resurrect mighty fast if given the slighest opportunity. Keep the soil surface In a dry, pulverized, pul-verized, weedless condition, and never let it harden. Pull the weeds out of the rows, where the hoe cannot reach them, because they do more harm here than between the rows. If the garden shows lack of moisture, moist-ure, It must be furnished, and the best way to do this is to irrigate at night. This Is better than sprinkling, because be-cause the water soaks in deeper and evaporation is much less at night than in the daytime. A thorough soaking once a week is plenty and the soil should be cultivated the next morning morn-ing to hold the water. This, then, is the time when a sol) full of manure Is appreciated. It holds more water and does not bake. |