Turning New Soil
Making a new garden at this time of the year can be rather a maddening job. You're full of ideas and ideals about the business. Your friends promise you all kinds of plants and seedlings and then add, " But of course you'll have to prepare your soil." And you're so keen to get on with the job and show a result,
Still, it’s true. Soil, at the moment, is for the most part too wet and gluey. If a handful squeezed tightly remains pressed in a shape it is just all wrong. You must turn it and wait for the frosts and winds to dry it out. When it crumbles in your hand
you may begin your task of manuring. But now another point crops up. You must see that your organic manures are dug well in. Then cover the surface with a three or four-inch layer of artificially manured soil in which to sow. In the case of seedlings be sure that the roots do not reach down to the too richly prepared under-bed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 11
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178Turning New Soil New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 11
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