Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1915 — FERTILIZER HINTS FOR THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

FERTILIZER HINTS FOR THE VEGETABLE GARDEN.

Try giving the celery frequent applications of nitrate of soda, 100 pounds to the acre. Use nitrate of soda at the rate of six pounds to a 25x50 foot lawn, to obtain a highly colored greensward. Use common salt on the asparagus bed, if you can’t break away from tradition, but potash salts are much better. To derive the greatest benefit from manure use fresh manure on heavy soils and well-decayed on light soils. Grow clover or other nitrogen gathering plants, or even rye, as a catchcrop after the crops have been harvested, in order to improve the soil. This advice holds good for the smallest garden. To Insure the best development of strawberries, top-dress with nitrate of soda just after the fruit sets. Coal ashes contain no plant food, but improve the mechanical condition of heavy soils. * Use nitrate of soda to force tom» toes, but only In small quantities—a small teaspoonful at the base of each plant every other week. To enrich the lawn, use hardwood ashes and fine bone meal—3s pounds of the former and six of the latter to a 59x100 foot plot