El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-24

you wish TO join the live element
in FL Psso and become flower
i grower next year, now is the time
20 begin. This is the time TO spread
manure and prepare your beds Moth
ing makes a bed better than giving It
ali winter to prepare itself to receive
the seed or plants you wish to put
INTO it in the spring
All beds should be dug and mixed
well with rotted manure at this time
and then kept watered. II the rain and
snow are not sufficient this winter
and spaded uD about every two weeks
during the next three months. One
third rotted. pulveriZed manure, Is not
TOO much TO a bed. This must be
stirred and worked into the soil and
wetted down occasionally or II VIII
burn up the plants next spring Just
throwing the manure into the bed and
leaving IL there is not sufficient Con-
slant stirring-at least every two or
three weeks-is the only way TO make
4 satisfactory bed, one that viii give
results This pulverises the soil and
works the life-giving food into it; food
IS what the plants must have II they
are to DO well. Put II into the earth
IN winter
Earth is real mother It absorbs
in the winter the food necessary to
feed life into plants through their
growing season It can take strong
food in winter, but IN the growing
season care must be used in feeding
or it will be too strong for the plants
II you are contemplating putting
out roses or trees, cover the groud
this winter with fresh barnyard ma
uure and straw The result VIII sur
prise YOU next spring II you DO IhiS-
Ground that you can hardly put pick
into TODAY will be soft enough TO
rurn with a spade in three months. and
he plant food will all have gone out
Of the manure into the ground, II the
rains and SHOWS fail to any extent
this winter: If they do not fan, then
have the manure thoroughly soaked
several times with water from the
hose. BY springtime. the manure and
straw will be so decayed that It can
De turned under the ground with the
usual garden fork. and there Is moth
ing better than this miXtuTe TO keep
he soil from caking and getting hard
IN summer time
Last sprfng-in Navy. G. Roe and
had our yards covered with this fresh
baruyzrd manure and straw We kept
it hack from the plants so that II
would not burn them, for fresh manure
lose TO a plant will XIII It and We " "a
erred Il regularly. I spread little IN
Stacked lime over the manure TO help
make il decay Today. in earth that
would hardly take pick last May /
an now. with the pressure of my foot
can tell by the appearance OF the
ground that IL is IN far better cOndi-
rion 10 produce growth in plants than
Il was before I spread the manure. The
trees themselves give ample evidence
Of this. however; so do the roses.
If you are going TO put out roses,
prepare your beds by digging them two
or three feet deep and putting some
broken stones in the bottom-this is
oest for drainage, though not abSo-
luteIy necessary in case OF roses
men fiji the beds with adobe soil not
silt from the canal which is liable TO
be full Of alkai and dangerous, but
real adobe soil, hauled from some
place down the valley. Then stir IN
The pulverized rOtted manure and mix
il well with the adobe dirt, two parts
OF dirt TO one of pulveriZed manure
and thoroughly wet it: then I would
suggest putting the fresh manure and
straw on top Of this and leaving il
there. removing 1t occasionally to stir
he earth in the beds. then recovering
the beds with the. fresh straw manure
again This keeps the beds wet and
decomposes the rotted manure more
rapidly and more satisfactorily
It is well also TO cover your BerInu-
da grass with this straw-manure coat
ing for the winter. You viii find that
the grass Will be much prettier mex
spring II not covered too deeply tbs
Grass will come through the coating
II YOU put il on deep, then IL can b'
rzked off next spring. Rotted manur,
. not worth much as a fertilizer fol
grass; its main function is performed
when it is mixed with earth to looseI
and mellow it Fresh manure is bes
FOR grass, especially IL applied in th'
g fall and left on the grass for tht
winter.