Setting Plants
Plants should be pruned before they are set. This is done by cutting off the tip ends of the roots, causing a callous to form where each root is cut off. From these callouses, myriads of fine feeding roots start soon after plants are set.
SIDE VIEW OF SECTION OF A ROW SHOWING PLANTS GROWN SINGLE-HEDGE SYSTEM
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In setting plants, make a small “V” shaped opening in the soil, place the roots straight down into this opening holding the crown slightly above ground level and press the soil firmly against the roots.
Kellogg’s All-Metal Corrugated One-Piece Dibble (see [page 63]) is an ideal tool for setting plants or an ordinary spade will answer the purpose. With a dibble, the setting can be done by one person while it requires two persons if a spade is used. One makes the opening with the spade and presses the soil against the roots and the other places the plant into the opening.
It is a very simple matter to set strawberry plants. Simply use the same judgment as in setting vegetable or flower plants.