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Within a short span of time children with DCD or those with dys-Draxia, to use Portwood's terminology (and here I am not suggesting hat the terms are synonymous, but 'overlapping'), begin fall ehind to fall >ehind their peers in a number of ways and are likely to enter a spi-al of failure (Ripley etal. 1997) unless they are given good quality elp. This pattern failure might be characterised by three features:

If you can't tolerate even one summer with a coarse cover crop occupying the land, follow the following two-year plan of improvement. Grow alternate crops of winter rye, sown in fall and turned under in spring when six to eight inches tall, and crops of Italian ryegrass or domestic rye-grass, sown in spring and kept neatly mowed all summer and turned under in fall. Fertilize before each crop is sown and give the ryegrass two or three light applications of fertilizer during the summer. If you begin fall ehind this schedule in the fall, you will turn under two crops of winter rye and two of ryegrass before you sow your permanent lawn two years later. If you begin fall ehind in spring, you will turn under one crop of winter rye and two of ryegrass before you sow your permanent lawn about a year and a half later. These three or four crops will benefit your soil almost beyond recognition. They will give it a new look.

It responds well to liberal applications of manure in the fall. The plants should be set three feet apart each way. Harvest of the stalks may begin fall ehind when the plants are two years old, and the stalks should be pulled, not cut. Roots of rhubarb should be divided every three or four years. For forcing, the roots are dug in fall, allowed to freeze, taken indoors, covered with soil or sand, kept in the dark or in dim light, and watered occasionally. The crop will be ready in about six weeks. After the harvest, the roots are thrown away.