OAL ASHES FOR STRAWBERRIES.
A.T owe of the American experiment stations an the suggestion of Dr. Sturtevant/abed-of Sharple&s strawberries was planted out aud Beavily mulched with coal ashes. • The object was to see if this material would not act beneficially in kooping down weeds. ' A report of the result of the experiment fays that it has done this in a marked degree, butthis is not all. "Tho 'yield from the plants," writes a correspondent connected ;with the experiment station, ''has been more abundant than from another bed of the same variety that has received excellent culture of the ordinary kind. The plants have been almost entirely free from blight, though the Sharpless blights badly here when grown in the ordinary way. I should have stated that the bed has received nc culture since the mulching except to remove the few weeds that were stronp enough to grow through the three inches ol coal ashes."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 315, 10 November 1888, Page 6
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154OAL ASHES FOR STRAWBERRIES. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 315, 10 November 1888, Page 6
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