Gardening for All - A Handbook on Growing Vegetables and Fruit, and the Prevention and Destruction of Insect Pests of the Garden, and Selection of Window Plants and Hardy Flowers, for the Use of Amateurs, Cottagers and Allotment Holders #245960

In order to produce the best result from the soil we cultivate, it is necessary not only to dig and manure that soil, but also to know something about its nature. Without such knowledge it will be an easy matter to waste both time and money in digging and manuring; by digging at the wrong time or in the wrong manner, and by applying the wrong kind Of manure. Soils vary in their nature (1) chemically and (2) mechanically.