In My Garden The strange heresy, or creed, that the
gardener should dispense with the spade or fork is again coming to the fore ; and when it is preached by so technical, sane and suggestive a paper as the Field it cannot be rejected out of hand. The alternative method is to spread compost on the surface and to plant and sow through it Photographed crops are shown to illustrate the superior success of the method, which, with other allied virtues, ensures the close juxtaposition of manure and root, and does not revive buried weed-seeds. At the same time the value for fertility of certain weeds is emphasised. In the case of potatoes that must be earthed-up later, the method is logical enough ; and, after all, farmers who use sheep as "golden feet" used always to plough as shallowly as possible where sheep had been hurdled. Any gardener cart at least try this new method ; and it is always an amusement to the good
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