Kellogg’s
PREMIER
THE PRIZE-WINNER AND MONEY-MAKER
Dr. Burrill
The
Million Dollar
Strawberry
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.
Cultivation
Cultivation should begin as soon as plants are set and when soil conditions will permit, should be continued every week or ten days throughout the entire growing season. Never cultivate when the soil is wet but cultivate as soon as the ground can be worked after each rain. Stir the soil to a depth of about two or three inches going as close to the rows as possible and complete the cultivation by hoeing shallow directly around the plants and in the rows where the cultivator teeth do not reach.