The Dutch incorporate freely with their naturally light soil a compost consisting of one-third coarse sea or river sand, one-third rotten cow dung without litter and one-third leaf-mould.
Well-drained beds made up of this soil, and refreshed with a portion of new compost annually, would grow the hyacinth to perfection.
A goodcompost for hyacinths is sandy loam, decayed leaf-mould, rotten cow dung and sharp sand in equal parts, the whole being collected and laid up in a heap and turned over occasionally.
It wanted a little in consistency, perhaps; but the compost heap was very large, containing enough of all the materials just mentioned to give the garden another good dressing.
Mark was quite a month in getting these materials into his compost heap, which he intended should lie in a pile during the winter, in order that it might be ready for spading in the spring.
Several of the fish caught turned out to be delicious, while others were of a quality that caused them to be thrown into the compost heap.
They like a compost of sandy loam and fibrous peat in lumps, with some sphagnum and small pieces of charcoal, keeping the soil and bulbs a little above the top of the pots, with a surfacing of cocoa-fibre or sphagnum.
These should have a good soil of fibrous loam, peat, a little sand, and charcoal to keep the compost sweet, as the plants require plenty of water while growing, C.
Although these all do with the compost named, unfortunately some are almost impossible to grow in ordinary gardens.
The Eucharis likes a compost of two or three parts of good loam to one of leaf-mould or turfy peat, and a little charcoal to keep thecompost sweet.
A capital compost is made of turfy loam, turfy peat, and leaf-soil in equal parts, with a little well-rotted manure and some sharp sand.
The large pile ofcompost that I had made near the poultry-house door could not be spared for this purpose, since it was destined for my August planting of strawberries.
We saved the surface earth carefully for compost purposes, and then struck some clean, nice gravel, which was carted away to a convenient place for our roads and walks.
Then I set Bagley to work with the cart spreading upon the soil the barn-yard compost that had accumulated since spring.
Thus I had secured a pile of compost which nearly top- dressed an acre for fodder corn.
Perhaps I may as well explain about these compost heaps now as at any other time.
I determined that the making of great piles of compost should form no small part of my fall and winter labor.
An acre and a half best land, heavily manured with well-rotted compost worked into drills eight feet apart: yielded fifty bushels, which brought two hundred and fifty dollars in New York.
To calf $ To compost $ You will have to reduce the item "feed" to many items, and remember that hay produced at home is not free hay.
Leaves are a very valuable ingredient in the making of compost for the garden.
Compost these in alternating layers for one, two, or three years under cover.
The chief point to be borne in mind in making these mixtures is not to combine in the same compost any bodies that are antagonistic in their nature, as for example lime and ammonia.
It is well, therefore, to burn the tops of the plants in the fall, rather than to plough them under or to throw them on the compost heap.
We usually compost the first arrivals of fish in June for our winter grain; after this pile has stood three or four weeks, it is worked over thoroughly.
When the dung and muck are removed from the stable, they should be well intermixed, and as fast as the compost is prepared, it should be put into a compact heap, and covered with a layer of muck several inches thick.
The compostwas spread on the plowed surface of a dry sandy loam at the rate of about fifteen cords to the acre, and harrowed in.
It is especially good in the pig-pen, where the animals themselves work over the compost in the most thorough manner, especially if a few kernels of corn be occasionally scattered upon it.
Yet we are obliged to use in September for our winter rye a great deal of the compost made in July.
We vary the proportions somewhat according to the crop the compost is intended for.
Here follow some estimates of the value of this compost by practical men.
We find it is best to mix the fish in the summer and not use the compost until the next spring and summer.
The quantity of muck should be pretty large compared to that of the guano,--a bushel of guano will compost six, eight, or ten of muck.
This compost was made from a light muck, that contained but three per cent.
One great advantage of the practical trial on the small scale is, that the adaptation of the peat or of the compost to the peculiarities of the soil, is decided beyond a question.
The compost of equal bulks of muck and stable manure, has been used for corn (with plaster in the hill,) on dry sandy soil to great advantage.
Fish compost thus prepared, is a uniform mass of fishy but not putrefactive odor, not disagreeable to handle.
The best compost is the strewing of ashes at the foot of the trees, the salt whereof being washed into the earth, is the best dressing, whilst the juice of the fallen leaves, though it kill the worm, is noxious to the root.
Doubtless, in some part of the ground you can find a corner that will be the proper place for the compost heap.
Every time you rake over the lawn or weed the garden, throw into a large basket the refuse and let it form part of the compost heap.
The compost is lifted on the wall by a fork and another man stands on the wall and treads it in.
In the old work nothing seems to have been done to prevent woodwork built in to the compost from decaying, though in many cases it has survived surprisingly.
Chalk again forms the basis of a compost that, used in the form of a stiff paste, has been largely employed for building from the earliest times down to the present.
Chalk compost walls are not easily repaired in that material, and bricks are generally used, well bonded in.
Building by ramming the moist compost between timber shutterings does not appear to have been practised in the past, though there is nothing against the method except its tendency to delay the drying out.
Where brickwork is used with chalk compost it is generally bonded in in the ordinary way, but block-bonding the depth of a chalk course is a better way of doing it.
A pretty, evergreen, woody climber for the conservatory, which succeeds best in a compost of light loam and peat; is of easy culture, and readily increased by cuttings.
It can be grown in any light, rich soil, but a compost of leaf-mould, sand, and peat suits it best.
A compost of loam and peat suits these beautiful evergreen shrubs.
A compost of loam, peat, and sand is their delight.
Shake the compost well up, and afterwards beat it down equally with the fork.
It grows well in a compost of peat and light, turfy loam, but it is not suitable for pot culture.
This compost is invigorating to flowers of all kinds, and is so ready for them to assimilate.
The soil most suitable for them is a compost of leaf-mould, loam, and sand.
They flourish in a compost of loam and peat, and may be propagated by seed or division.
Cuttings may be taken in autumn, placed in small pots in a light compost of peat and sand, and given a little bottom-heat.
Scrape the gum off, wash the place thoroughly with clear water, and apply a compost of horse-dung, clay, and tar.
Where the ground is not in good condition a compost may be made of one-half rich loam and one-fourth each of well-rotted manure and leaf-mould, with sufficient sand to keep it porous.
They grow best in a compost of sand, peat, and loam, and may be propagated by cuttings or by layers of ripened wood, laid down in autumn.
It is difficult to grow them in my hot, dry, sandy soil, even though I make them a liberal provision of just such a compost as I think they will like.
Then three bulbs were put in each pot in a compost that I knew they would enjoy.
I intended to put a pinch of guano compost or a handful of poudrette into each hill, but thought I could not afford it, and so let them go, trusting to being able to give them a dressing of some kind of manure the following spring.
Such changes can be made to occur in the barnyard by saturating the compost heap with barnyard liquor.
Few can afford to let their compost heaps remain long enough for the process of pulverization to become as perfect as it should be.
A huge compost heap was made of leaves, each layer being saturated with the liquor as the heap accumulated, so that the whole mass was moist with fluid manure.
Gardeners prize highly a compost made in part of decomposed leaves.
But no one can quickly realize its superior benefits from a newly buried compost heap, unless the latter has been effectually pulverized before being deposited either in or upon the ground.
Such a pile of rotting vegetable matter is called a compost pile.
But do not dump where the rubbish is to be unsightly for others as it has been for yourself; far better have a dump heap on your own land and screen this as the compost heap was to be shielded from view.
Go over the ploughed space, pick out the pieces of sod, shake them well and pack them up in a compost heap.
I do not think a compost pile will do the harm, but unkempt, uncared-for spots seem to invite trouble.
As the season was very wet, it was indifferently cleaned, and one-fourth of it manured with a compost of night-soil and ashes, and then the field was sowed with wheat.
Work the compost over until all its ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
The quantity of manure required to make the compost sufficiently rich to suit all kinds of plants will depend on the quality of the loam used.
If the plants you put into the compost make a strong, healthy growth, the soil is rich enough.
Odontoglossa cannot endure wooden blocks, but will thrive in a compost of which one-half consists of small broken potsherds, the remainder being a mixture of shredded sphagnum (dusted with fine sand) and fibrous peat.
If only a few seeds of a rare variety are obtainable, very porous compost in five-inch pots or shallower boxes, the seeds sown near the edges, will give best results.
An inch of pebbles, broken shells or sterilized potsherds should be placed in bottom and pot or box filled to within one-half inch of top with light compost made of two parts rich loamy soil and one part sand, well mixed together.
Early in the spring he can cover the surface with some fertilizer--there is nothing better than a rotted compost of muck and barn-yard manure--at the proportion of forty or fifty tons to the acre.
In the middle of December, the plants were covered over with a compost of the sweepings of the vegetable and fish markets, with some horse manure mixed through it.
Then these plants, with their accompanying balls of earth interlaced with roots, are ready to be shifted into pots of from six to eight inches in diameter, which also should be filled with the compost already described.
If the ground were poor, or one were desirous of large fruit, it would be well to give a liberal autumn top-dressing of fine compost or any well-rotted fertilizer not containing crude lime.
When a bed is closely covered with young plants that have not taken root, a top-dressing of finecompost will greatly hasten their development.
If the ground is not very fertile, it is well to give the young plants a good start by scattering a liberal quantity of muck compost down the furrow in which they are planted.
If a liberal top-dressing of compost or some other fertilizer was not given in the autumn, which is the best time to apply it, let it be spread over the roots (not up against the stems) before the first spring cultivation.
Before using the product of the horse-stable, I would compostit with at least an equal bulk of leaves, muck, sods, or even plain earth if nothing better could be found.
Never place different sizes in the same package and always discard inferior or injured heads; the compost heap is the place for them.
The manure is generally spread in a broad, flat pile to compost before it is applied to the soil on which frames are to be located.
In the autumn, after the crops have been harvested, or as fast as any crop is disposed of, any refuse that remains should be gathered and placed in the compost heap, or burned if diseased or infested with insects.
The leaves put in a compost heap will pay for the trouble of hauling, or they can be fed to domestic animals with profit.
They are usually much assisted by compost manures where clay, mud, upland marl, &c.
In a recipe for a rich compost suitable for small garden plants, we are advised (I, 2, I, p.
Of manure (V) Plan to have a big compost heap and take the best of care of the manure.
He goes on (II, 14) to lay down rules about the compost heap which should be written in letters of gold in every farm house.
What sour land the Romans had they corrected with humus making barnyard manure, or the rich compost which Cato and Columella recommend.
If you want them, and your garden was not dressed in the autumn, some well-rotted compost should be dug in for the Sunflowers in spring.
You must prepare some finely sifted compost of loam, leaf-mould, and silver sand.
Whichever of these you use must have a few holes in it, then some broken crocks for drainage, and then the compost made of leaf-mould, loam, and silver sand.
The blue devils take flight at once if they see you mean to bury them and make compost of them.
Nature does not care whether the hunter slay the beast or the beast the hunter; she will make good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeeds.
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