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Fruit Trees
By Feliciano Madrid
Keep in your pocket a whetstone with which to sharpen the blade of the knife from time to time. This needn't be longer than 3 inches. It is a simple matter when in the orchard to spit on the stone and to rub the knife-blade on its smooth surface.
A trench is dug out, say, 3 feet wide and 6 feet deep. This is lined with plenty of clean wheat straw. The apples are then placed carefully in the tapering heap so as to produce a heap about 3 feet high.
Over the top of the apples' a layer of straw 3 inches deep is laid so that the lengths of straw lie lengthways from the top of the clamp to the bottom. For the first fortnight some of this straw is removed during the day to allow for sweating and is put back at about five o'clock.
At the end of the fortnight the straw is left in position and, in another week, a casing of soil 6 inches deep is laid over the top. The outside of this soil is then smoothed over with the back of the spade, so that it deflects the rain like the roof of a house. Some of the straw is twisted tightly into a 3-inch thick 'chimney' and this allowed to peep through the soil and acts as a ventilator at the top of the ridge.
It is best to store different varieties of apples in separate clamps even if this means making two or three of them in circles like tents.
It is when you use a tool regularly, oil it and take care of it, that it somehow becomes personal to you. You learn how best to sharpen it, it somehow fits your hand perfectly, it is of the right weight or it is 'worn down' by your use so that it fits snugly into the palm. A really good knife is a first-class investment.
A trench is dug out, say, 3 feet wide and 6 feet deep. This is lined with plenty of clean wheat straw. The apples are then placed carefully in the tapering heap so as to produce a heap about 3 feet high.
Over the top of the apples' a layer of straw 3 inches deep is laid so that the lengths of straw lie lengthways from the top of the clamp to the bottom. For the first fortnight some of this straw is removed during the day to allow for sweating and is put back at about five o'clock.
At the end of the fortnight the straw is left in position and, in another week, a casing of soil 6 inches deep is laid over the top. The outside of this soil is then smoothed over with the back of the spade, so that it deflects the rain like the roof of a house. Some of the straw is twisted tightly into a 3-inch thick 'chimney' and this allowed to peep through the soil and acts as a ventilator at the top of the ridge.
It is best to store different varieties of apples in separate clamps even if this means making two or three of them in circles like tents.
It is when you use a tool regularly, oil it and take care of it, that it somehow becomes personal to you. You learn how best to sharpen it, it somehow fits your hand perfectly, it is of the right weight or it is 'worn down' by your use so that it fits snugly into the palm. A really good knife is a first-class investment.
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Most garden fruit trees need additional feeding at intervals to replenish the natural minerals in soil as the plant use them up.
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