In the pit for composts were heaped up branches of trees, blood, guts, feathers--everything that he could find.
Loam is the staple soil for the gardener; it is not only used extensively in the pure and simple state, but enters into most of the composts prepared specially for his plants.
Before being used the turfy ingredients of composts should lie together in a heap only long enough for the roots of the herbage to die, not to decompose.
Indeed the composts now used are varied considerably according to the particular group of orchids.
Thoroughly decayed, it is one of the best of all manures for mixing in composts for florists' flowers and other choice plants.
In making up composts for pot plants, the fibrous portion should not be removed by sifting, except for small-sized pots, but the turfy portions should be broken up by hand and distributed in smaller or larger lumps throughout the mass.
Wheel out manure and composts during frosty weather; trench vacant ground not turned up roughly in autumn.
But in view of the abundant supply of concentrated fertilisers, the use of compostsmay considerably decrease in future.
Composts of this kind are generally made by piling up the manure in heaps, consisting of alternate layers of peat and farmyard manure.
Composts often serve a useful purpose in retaining valuable volatile manurial ingredients, such as ammonia, formed in easily fermentable substances like urine.
The early winter is spent in ploughing, which we pass over, and mid-winter chiefly in feeding stock, in threshing out the corn, and in attending to composts and dunghills.
Much valuable information is given on the management of manure-heaps, and the forming of composts in winter.
The factors inhibiting the activity of the fungi can be removed by the application of comparatively small amounts of organic composts which produce dramatic and lasting effects on the growth of roots and shoots.
It is suggested that the composts act mainly by modifying the course of humus decomposition, thus bringing about drastic changes in the biological activities of the organic substrate of the soil.
The special composts used are prepared from organic materials such as straw, hop waste and sawdust.
In all cases five or six months of summer weather is a sufficient time to fit these composts for application to the soil.
Their estimation in composts is of great interest, though troublesome to execute.
Peat and itscomposts are usually applied at rates ranging from 20 to 40 wagon or cart loads per acre.
The composts with stable manure and lime, or salt and lime mixture, are those which, in general, it would be best to experiment with.
Those who have practiced making peat composts with their yard, stable, and pen manure, almost invariably find them highly satisfactory in use, especially upon light soils.
Composts of different kinds are made and used same as in other localities, I presume.
I have noticed that one of the shrewdest gardeners invariably composts horn-shavings and bone-meal with horse-manure several months before expecting to use it.
Making composts with old sods, lime, and barn-yard manure, is a time-honored practice in Europe.
The composts receiving the four highest awards in each county are allowed to compete with those in other counties for a prefectural prize awarded by another committee.
When used on the rice fields where water is abundant the composts are applied in a less fermented condition.
We were unable to secure definite data as to the chemical composition of these composts and cannot say what amounts of available plant food the Shantung farmers are annually returning to their fields.
Howard had attempted to make composts of single vegetable materials like cotton residues, cane trash, weeds, fresh green sweet clover, or the waste of field peas.
Territorial's catalog offered information about organic or environmentally benign pest and disease controls, seasonal cover crops, composts and mulches, and charts guiding us to optimal planting patterns.
They have long been adapted to growing on potent composts or strong manures like fresh horse manure or chicken manure.
The vegetable gardens of country folk also received the best manures and composts available while the field crops got the rest.
The above composts should be made some months before they are wanted, and very frequently turned during that time, that the different mixtures may get well and uniformly incorporated.
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