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A Point For Gardeners

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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The building of an asparagus bed where there is any pretense of a garden is a most important operation, as a bed of these delicious plants is as good at the end of fifty years, when properly constructed, as it was in the beginning. A sheltered place should be selected f or it, where the northern winds do iiot have a chance at it and where the sun can get at itpretty nearly all day. The roots of the plants go down deep and spread wide, and therefore they should be planted in rows eighteen iuches apart and each plant twelve inches from its nearest neighbor in the row. Determine the size of the bed you wish and excávate it to a depth of three f eet and always until it reaches a soil which will drain itself . If this cannot ba, then tiles should be laid to take off the water. Fill the bottom of the excavation with broken stone, old cans and other rubbish which will not decay or bind together, and then throw back the best of the earth eicavated with a good qnantity of well rotted stable manure. The earth by these two handlings will generally be well broken up, but if it is not it should be broken with the rake as it is put back. Then put in the twoyear-old roots as before stated. Cover them well and keep the earth of the bed loose and free from weeds. At the end of two years it will be ready to cut from. In very cold climates the bed should be covered with leaves or something else during the winter. In the spring it shoald be uncovered the firot thing and hoed and raked. Beds may be made either in the autumn or spring, but in northern latitudes the spring is tinquestionably the botter time.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News