In My Garden
That unlovely and hard-bitten thing, the cabbage-stalk, whic announces to the nose the large amount of sulphur that it contains is a cause of trouble to many amateur gardeners. It is difficult t burn and spoils the compost heap or pit by refusing to disintegrate But there is a way. If the stalks are put in a heap by themselve for six months or more, they can thereafter be safely added to th compost heap. Their obstinacy has been overcome. Recent dis coveries prove that fertility is largely due to root-funguses that shoul develop naturally. On their behalf, it seems to be necessary t aerate the compost heap in some measure, and this work is gener ally omitted by the rough-and-ready gardeners that most of us are Driving a crowbar into the pit will help in this regard, and the pit though better than the heap, suffers more from want of oxygen.
W. BEACH THOM4S.
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