Growing Vegetables Tips
Before taking the garden vegetables individually, I will explain a general method of cultivation that applies to all.
The purposes of cultivation are threefold: by removing weeds and (1) stimulating growth by aerating the soil and releasing unavailable plant food and (2) conserving moisture.
Speaking of weeds, no experienced gardener needs to be told how important it is to keep their crops clean. Through bitter and costly experience he learned the value of letting them have something to begin with.
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A day or two of growth, after it has cured, followed perhaps by a day or more of rain, can easily double or treble the work of clearing a piece of onion or carrot, and where the weeds have attained any size, he knows that without doing them great injury he cannot be removed from the sown crop. He also realizes, or should, that daily growth means only so much available plant food stolen from right under the roots of his legitimate crops.
Instead of allowing the grass to get away with any plant food, it should provide more, for clean and frequent cultivation will not only break up the soil mechanically, but will let in all the air, moisture, and heat necessary to effect those chemical changes. necessary for transformation into unavailable plant food Not available.
Long before the science in this case was discovered, observation taught agriculturists the necessity of ridding the soil nicely of its crops. Even the tall and rugged aborigine took care that his squaw did not put the bad fish under the hill of corn, but threw his shell over it. Plants must breathe.
They need air in their roots. You can expect to see the lush dark green of healthy plant life in a choked garden just as much as you can expect to find a rosy glow of happiness on the pale cheeks of a child slave in a cotton mill.
As important as the issue of air is, the issue of water is next to it. Often, at first, you may not see what cultivation has to do with water. But let's stop for a moment and look at it.
Take a strip of blotting paper, dip one end in water, and watch the moisture run up the hill, soaking up the blotter. What scientists have called "capillary attraction" is that water rises in tiny invisible tubes formed by the texture of the absorbent.
Now take a similar piece, cut it horizontally, firmly hold the two cut edges together and try again. refuses to cross the moisture line: the connection is broken.
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