A PLANTING BOARD
Solution To A Minor Puzzle
One of the minor puzzles of planting tijne is getting your tree exactly where you want it. The positions are carefully marked out with canes or sticks. When you come to dig the hole for planting, however. the stick has to be removed and all that careful placing has gone for naught. This is where the planting board comes in. It is simply a board about four feet long and five inches wide. In each end is cut a notch three inches wide and two inches deep, while the centre has a notch four inches wide and two inches deep. In use it is simplicity. Place the central notch against the cane which marks your planting place. Now place a cane in each end notch, fixing the board in position. Remove the planting board and the marking cane and dig your hole to the depth and size required. Now replace the board, positioned correctly by the two canes which were placed in the end notches, and left in place when the hole was dug. The central notch indicates the exact place at which the stem of the plant is positioned for accurate planting. For planting fruit trees and bushes in their neat rows there is nothing better.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29565, 14 July 1961, Page 6
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215A PLANTING BOARD Press, Volume C, Issue 29565, 14 July 1961, Page 6
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