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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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as thoroughly as possible. Before plowing—andif it is large enough for a horse to turn around in, yourgarden should be plowed rather than spaded—a good dress-ing of old, well-rotted stable manure, three inches deep,should be evenly spread over the surface. After plowingand before harrowing (raking), a 4-8-10 fertilizer (that is,one containing 4 per cent Nitrogen, 8 per cent availablePhosphoric Acid, and 10 per cent Potash) should be spreadon at the rate of 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. to the acre—250 to 300lbs. for a garden 100x150 feet. You can save money, andget a better fertilizer, by buying the raw materials and do-ing your own mixing. Besides this, for the best results, youwill want 25 to 50 pounds of Nitrate of Soda, for top-dressing plants, increasing both size and earliness, and 25to 50 pounds each of bone flour, and tankage, or cotton-seed meal, to mix and put in the hills or rows for vine-plants,tomato, pepper, egg-plant, cabbage, and other transplantedplants which require it.
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A home vegetable garden with a little vineyard in combination March, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 89 cooofioooo^x x^oooa&xxo X^OOOOQOOOOO^

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