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At stated times the deodorized mass of solid increment in which there was not or ought not to have been any refuse paper to add useless bulk was spaded, through the trap door, out of the box in the upper part of the vault, into a wheelbarrow, thrown upon the garden soil, and thoroughly incorporated with it.
Every now and then one flew out of the sweet spring distance, lit, and silently erected his red breast among some plough ridges lower down. It was like a veritable transition from sound to sight. Below where Jerome spaded, and upon the left, stretched long waving plough ridges where the corn was planted.
A bed managed in this way will give two full crops, and should then be spaded or plowed down, a new one having been in the meantime prepared to take its place. The same directions with regard to soil, time of planting, protection, and mulching, as given above, are applicable when planting on a large scale. The Matted Row System.
There is no sign that there ever was a pig anywhere about here: yet the store of fine old bacon surpasses anything any mere farm ever kept on hand; there is not a square yard of ground hereabouts that ever has been plowed, spaded or hoed: yet the place is crammed with all sorts of farm produce.
But even after the wedding the latter did not give up his work as a gardener. He spaded the field and sold vegetables as usual, and his wife had to fetch water and build the kitchen fire herself. But she did her work without false shame and, though her relatives reproached her, she continued to do so.
As a phosphate I might amount to something if I'm carefully spaded in." And in a lower voice just escaping mockery: "How are you, Virginia?" "I am perfectly well." "Are you well enough to sit down and talk to me for half an hour?" She made no reply. "Don't be dignified; there is nothing more inartistic, except a woman who is trying to be brave on an inadequate income."
Before he would go on, Father put his arm about her ample waist and led her to the new porch-swing overlooking the raw spaded patch of earth that would be a rose-garden some day that already, to their imaginations, was brilliant with blossoms and alive with birds.
"Well, this is the first start of making a garden," went on Uncle Pennywait. "The ground must be plowed or spaded. Spading is all right for a small garden, but when you have a large one, or a farm, you must use a plow." Mr. Blake owned a large yard back of his house, and next door, on the other side from where the new Porter family lived, was a large vacant lot.
Beds can be spaded as soon as the frost is out of the ground, as advised in the chapter on The Garden of Annuals, but, as was said in that chapter, it is not advisable to do more with them at that time. If the ground is worked over when wet, the only result is that you get a good many small clods to take the place of large ones. Nothing is gained by being in a hurry with this part of the work.
Jerome always looked hard out of all his little open windows of life, and saw every precious thing outside his daily grind of hard, toilsome childhood which came within his sight. The bird flew away, and Jerome spaded again. He knew that he must finish so much before dinner or his mother would scold.
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