Hand spading should be resorted to only in very small gardens or where it is desirable to prepare a small area very thoroughly.
Much better results would be had if more attention were given to the matter of deep cultivation, that is, in deep spading or plowing of the ground.
Deep plowing or spading is very important; it is the best possible remedy for excessive drought or unusual rains.
This may be done by spading and hoeing, but better by thorough mulching.
Plowing or spading too early, in hope of getting earlier vegetables, is often a failure.
Silas was spading up the garden and came at the call.
Men were spading and planting the vegetable gardens, painting or white-washing fences.
Illustration: Spading Fork] All these are familiar friends; but what are those plants near the kitchen?
To accomplish this no hand tool surpasses the spading fork.
They must be very well mixed with the soil by a thorough spading and forking.
So it is well at the time of spading or plowing to see that enough fertilizer is applied to insure good growth and blossom.
If the field be spaded, but not planted, the owner may pay his creditor for the cost of the labor expended in spading the field, together with a bonus as interest.
The plaintiff or prosecutor seizes the field at spading time by planting runo stalks, alpud, in it.
Disputes over ownership and boundary come to a head during spading time.
The weather is delightful, and I seek distraction by spading in my garden.
I amspading up my little garden, and hope to raise a few vegetables to eke out a miserable subsistence for my family.
The weather is fine, and I am spading up my little garden.
The workmen were busy in the garden, spading and pruning.
Laborers were busy spading up the heavy, wet ground, or digging trenches, which instantly filled with water, for the whole country was afloat.
You are to sleep in the room over the kitchen, my boy, and when we have finished supper I guess you'll be glad to lie down, for spading up a piece of grass land isn't easy work.
Then Aunt Hannah asked if he felt equal to the task of spading up a small piece of ground behind the barn, where she counted on making a garden, and he could do no less than agree to undertake the task.
Farvie talked of seed catalogues, and it became evident that Jeff was spading up the old vegetable garden on the orchard's edge.
She had seen him spading in the orchard, and if Miss Lydia wanted to carry up the towels!
You thought I'd be spading to keep from growing dotty.
Evidently Anne intended to have no spading at random in a fair green orchard.
The main sowing waits until frost is unlikely and I can dig the potato rows at least 12 inches deep with a spading fork, working in fertilizer as deeply as possible and ending up with a finely pulverized 24-inch-wide bed.
Rigorous double digging by actually trenching out 12 inches and then spading up the next foot theoretically allows one to mix in significant amounts of organic matter to nearly 24 inches.
The spading fork cannot cure this condition as simply as it can eliminate thin plowpan.
On a garden-sized plot, plowpan or compacted subsoil is easily opened with a spading fork or a very sharp common shovel.
Dig up the soil to a depth of 6 to 10 inches, using a spade or spading fork.
The only tools necessary for a small garden are a spade or spading fork, a hoe, a rake, and a line or piece of cord.
Many experienced gardeners advocate plowing orspading the garden in fall.
But if the owner of a garden has ample time to devote to it, I would advise plowing or spading in both seasons.
The question is frequently asked: Would you advise plowing or spading the garden in fall?
I seen him spading up some ground along about an hour ago, just before sundown--him and the parson.
It surprised me so it kind of throwed me off, but I pulled myself together again and says: "It was when he was spading up some ground along with you, towards sundown or along there.
If the clay is very tenacious, it may be necessary to throw leafmold or litter over the surface before the spading is done, to prevent the soil from running together or cementing before spring.
Roses should be carefully taken up every four or five years, tops and roots cut in, and then reset, either in a new place or in the old, after enriching the soil with a fresh supply of manure, and deeply spading it over.
The first operation after draining and grading is the plowing or spading of the surface.
The section at the right shows a similar operation, so far as the surface spading is concerned, but the subsoil has also been cut as fast as it has been exposed.
These remarks will apply to any spading of the land.
The first working of the rice fields after the transplanting, as we saw it in Japan, consisted in spading between the hills with a four-tined hoe, apparently more for loosening the soil and aeration than for killing weeds.
For half an hour we stood watching an old gardener fitting the soil with hisspading hoe in the manner seen in Fig.
When the spading has been done, then use your rake and spare it not.
This done, proceed to fork the whole piece over, thrusting the spading fork into the ground its full length each time, and turning the forkful of earth so that the manure will be covered and not lie on top of the ground.
Even Pat Maloney, Roman Catholic though he is, would not take anything for spading up the ground for "our church garden.
Two boys were spading up; another was planting; a fourth was wheeling away the weeds; and still another was bringing manure from the Deacon's stable.
In some cases the larger boys will undertake to line out the walks and do the spading or digging.
He turned into his garden and watched Max, the robot, spading in the petunia bed.
He went to the big bay window and, trying to keep his mind blank, watched Max re-spading the petunia bed.
The batteries were simply planted down in a long line in the open, or at best had the guns sunk a foot or two in shallow pits made by spading out the connecting rims of a group of shell-holes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
